From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:43:44 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] consterm In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec897430-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/6/07, Russ Cox wrote: > On 11/6/07, Eric Van Hensbergen 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