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Manual

DRAWTERM

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SOURCE
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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NAME

drawterm - connect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems

SYNOPSIS

drawterm [ -d ] [ -a authserver ] [ -c cpuserver ] [ -e encription_hash_algs ] [ -k keyspec ] [ -s secstoreserver ] [ -u username ] [ -C command args ... ]

DESCRIPTION

drawterm is not a Plan 9 program. It is a program that users of non-Plan 9 systems can use to establish graphical cpu (1) connections with Plan 9 CPU servers. Just as a real Plan 9 terminal does, a drawterm serves its local name space as well as some devices (the keyboard, mouse, and screen) to a remote CPU server, which mounts this name space on /mnt/term and starts a shell. Typically, either explicitly or via the profile, one uses the shell to start rio (1).

By default, drawterm uses the CPU server $cpu or cpu , and the authentication server $auth or auth ,

OPTIONS

This program follows the syntax of the cpu(1) Plan 9 command.

A summary of options is included below.

	-h		Show summary of options.
	-a		Specifies the authentication server to use. If not present uses the $auth environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name of auth .
	-c		Specifies the cpu server to use. If not present uses the $cpu environment variable, if present, or tries with a host name of cpu .
	-u		Specifies the username to authenticate with. If not present uses the $USER environment variable, if present, or asks interactively for an username.
	-s		Specifies the secstore server to use.
	-C		Specifies a command to be executed remotely.
	-e , -k		Allow for selecting the hash algorithm and keys used, they have the same meaning as in cpu (1).

SOURCE

In Plan 9 distributions, /sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm .

DIAGNOSTICS

Drawterm prints most diagnostics in its own window.

BUGS

Although at first drawterm may seem like a Plan 9 terminal, in fact it is just a way to provide a CPU server with some terminal devices. The difference is important because one cannot run terminal-resident programs when using drawterm . The illusion can be improved by delicate adjustments in /usr/$user/lib/profile .

Should import latest /dev/draw to allow resize of window

Should copy 9term code and make console window a real 9term window instead.

Should implement /dev/label.

SEE ALSO

cpu (1), rio (1) in the Plan 9 documentation

AUTHOR

drawterm was written by Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>.

This manual page was written by Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>, with modifications by Martín Ferrari <tincho@debian.org> for the Debian project.

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