From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <719bc0fd763d14adf5d99d93e6a9b2f0@quanstro.net> References: <719bc0fd763d14adf5d99d93e6a9b2f0@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: [9fans] consterm Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:53:52 +0900 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed5f622a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I would like to have an option for drawterm to bypass graphical interface. I sometimes feel annoying the interface. Kenji Arisawa On 2007/11/07, at 8:35, erik quanstrom wrote: >> However, I'm also thinking longer term - towards the FastOS project >> where users aren't going to necessarily want to fire up a whole >> 'environment' such as Inferno or Drawterm just to execute an >> application on the cluster -- particularly if that application isn't >> graphical. > > i think i don't understand your problem, as drawterm runs on the host, > not the client. if you had one cpuserver, you could cpu into the > target nodes without starting very much on them. why won't that work? > > if you don't need to copy files around, telnet is even lighter weight. > > - erik