Re: [9fans] consterm

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 11/6/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone done a term program to connect to Plan 9 or Inferno --
> > kinda like drawterm, without the draw bits?  I guess I am thinking
> > about something that exports /dev/cons, /mnt/term, /dev/audio, etc. --
> > but then just runs an rc on the other end instead of rio so I can just
> > run it within an xterm (or whatever).  Seems like it would be a useful
> > thing to have.
>
> It is trivial to rip the gui out of drawterm and make reads and
> writes to /dev/cons redirect to reads and writes on /dev/tty
> instead of the graphics console.  Patch below.
>
> There is no p9p cpu, only the very very sketchy beginnings.
> You're much better off starting with drawterm, especially if
> you want things like /dev/audio.
>

Cool - kinda figured it would be easy to mod drawterm, just wondering
if someone had already done it.  Thanks Russ.

        -eric