DRAWTERM(1) | General Commands Manual | DRAWTERM(1) |
drawterm - connect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems
drawterm [-d] [-a authserver] [-c cpuserver] [-e encription_hash_algs] [-k keyspec] [-s secstoreserver] [-u username] [-C command args ...]
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 $auth or auth,
This program follows the syntax of the cpu(1) Plan 9 command.
A summary of options is included below.
In Plan 9 distributions, /sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm.
Drawterm prints most diagnostics in its own window.
Although at first drawterm may seem like a Plan 9 terminal, in fact it is just a way to provide a CPU server with some terminal devices. The difference is important because one cannot run terminal-resident programs when using drawterm. The illusion can be improved by delicate adjustments in /usr/$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.
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.
October 16, 2008 |