From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:36:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B0A6B130-A364-4101-9FA3-EFD47D201F0B@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea634cc80904132305r2a645dads9eb3014a36c445d7@mail.gmail.com>
Plan 9 in the home... an interesting experiment. (I am the only one in
my home who uses it.) Enjoy!
My message contains references to files in /n/sources/contrib. When
you get your internet up in Plan 9, use
9fs sources
to gain access to this folder. PostScript and PDF files can be seen
with page. If a program is distributed as source code and a file
"mkfile", type
mk install
to build and install. Some of us have switched to Federico Benavento's
contrib system. To install it, run
/n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib
On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Jim Habegger wrote:
> Meanwhile, does anyone have
> any suggestions about learning to use Plan 9 for home office,
troff for document processing and presentations. A troff document is a
text file containing text and commands, like so:
.PP
Hey there!
This is troff.
.B "I have bold text" .
The main troff documentation is /sys/doc/troff.ps, but a tutorial is a
better bet. Take a look at http://www.troff.org/papers.html.
To integrate a picture, you will first need to convert that picture
file into a postscript file:
lp -dstdout -pgifpost file.gif > file.ps
lp -dstdout -pjpgpost file.jpg > file.ps
Then look up the mpictures macro set. You can have more than one macro
set:
troff -ms -mpictures cool.ms
Converting to PDF:
troff -ms -mpictures cool.ms | dpost -f | ps2pdf > cool.pdf
There are several specialized slideshow packages.
* the archaic mv macro set included with Plan 9 (doc: /n/sources/
contrib/pietro/mv.pdf).
* Uriel's slides scripts (/n/sources/contrib/uriel/slides/)
* Russ Cox's talk scripts (/n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk/)
Plan 9 doesn't have:
> multimedia
Each picture type has a program for viewing it, named after the file
extension (png, jpg, etc.); page can be used to view multiple pictures
at once.
juke(6) for how to go about playing music.
I don't think there are video players.
> and Internet socializing,
There are IRC clients in /n/sources/contrib and an AIM client at /n/
sources/contrib/leitec/bsflite/. I don't think you can use websites
with Plan 9 unless everything is done server-side. The primary web
browser is abaco:
contrib/install fgb/abaco
> and then to learn more about
> networking and distributed systems?
Read the files in /sys/doc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 6:05 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 11:09 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 12:36 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2009-04-14 12:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 12:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-14 12:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-14 13:17 ` Andrés Domínguez
2009-04-15 8:26 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 11:48 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-17 13:00 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-17 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-17 14:08 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-17 16:08 ` hiro
2009-04-17 19:26 ` Gorka Guardiola
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 11:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-04-20 15:02 ` Uriel
2009-04-20 16:21 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-20 18:57 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-20 20:22 ` David Leimbach
2009-04-18 0:13 ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-18 5:47 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:03 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 6:11 ` lucio
2009-04-18 6:08 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-18 16:15 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 16:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-18 16:34 ` J.R. Mauro
[not found] ` <87DD0DBADB1647F789D9EB63@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 16:19 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 18:29 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <0AE52A74098A8B999540233C@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 19:43 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-18 19:34 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <B6FF436789F29A3B7977687E@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-18 20:44 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 18:13 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-22 12:19 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-22 13:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-04-20 10:41 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
[not found] ` <F1194F3CF3ADD35D3B0DF261@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-17 14:03 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-04-18 16:23 ` ron minnich
2009-04-18 16:29 ` lucio
2009-04-15 13:52 ` lucio
2009-04-15 13:32 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 16:00 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-15 16:09 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <69CBEA1CA346E38D7A5C7507@192.168.1.2>
2009-04-15 13:02 ` hiro
2009-04-15 13:05 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-15 12:50 ` Eris Discordia
2009-04-15 14:00 ` Navin Johnson
2009-04-15 14:39 ` hugo rivera
2009-04-16 14:07 ` Jim Habegger
2009-04-17 13:14 ` Jim
2009-04-14 14:46 Jim Habegger
2009-04-14 15:41 ` maht
2009-04-14 19:43 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2009-04-14 23:28 ` Jim Habegger
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