From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Frank da Cruz Message-ID: <9onnci$o64$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu> References: <87elowlli9.fsf@moon.mteege.de> Subject: Re: [9fans] Nextstaion as plan9 terminal Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:58:53 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1ad490e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <87elowlli9.fsf@moon.mteege.de>, Matthias Teege <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote: : is it possible to use a Nextstation as a plan9 terminal? : You mean, like a Telnet client? Sure. The main issue is that Plan 9 uses UTF-8 character encoding but the NeXT terminal window (e.g. Stuart) does not. But all is not lost. Use C-Kermit: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html as your Telnet client and it will convert between UTF-8 and the local NeXT character set if you tell it to. (The NeXT character set is like MS Code Page 1252, but with its own unique encoding.) You can also use C-Kermit to make serial connections to Plan 9, thru a null-modem cable (tricky for NeXT with its two different kinds of Din-8 connectors) or modem. Of course C-Kermit need not run on NeXTSTEP -- it can run on practically any UNIX-based OS that exists (or ever did, at least post-V7). Versions are also available for Windows, VMS, etc. The Linux version would make a better Plan 9 terminal, since UTF-8 Linux xterms are now becoming available. C-Kermit is also available for Plan 9, where it can be used to make the opposite kind of connection: from Plan 9 outwards. In this case it can convert between the remote character set (Latin-1, Latin-2, NeXT, Japanese EUC, etc) and local UTF-8. Unfortunately the Plan 9 version only can make serial connections since nobody has ever added networking support to it. (Anybody who'd like to do this, please contact me -- now would be a good time, since version 8.0 is soon to be released.) - Frank