From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: From: Pietro Gagliardi To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:36:09 -0400 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: daaafe6c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.