| Command | 9front Drawterm output |
$ ./drawterm --help | usage: drawterm [-GBO] [-h host] [-u user] [-a authserver] [-s secstore] [-e 'crypt hash'] [-k keypattern] [-p] [-t timeout] [-r root] [-c cmd ...] |
| 9front Drawterm option | 9front Drawterm option description |
-G | Start drawterm in text-only mode (no graphics). |
-B | Disable kbdfs. |
-O | Use the old cpu(1) to connect to the cpu server rather than rcpu(1). |
-p | Aan is usually run automatically through the -p option or rimport, rexport, and rcpu(1); protect the connection against connection resets by establishing aan(8) tunnel. |
-t | Add -t timeout-in-seconds, if more than the default (24 hours/86400 seconds) is needed; set the timeout for aan(8) to a value in seconds (default is one day). |
-r | Specifies the root directory on the client. The default is /root and all further paths are relative thereto. |
| | aan, aanuke – always available network |
| AAN: | Aan tunnels traffic between a client and a server through a persistent network connection. | http://man.9front.org/8/aan |
| AANUKE: | Aanuke prints commands that will cause all processes called aan that are owned by the current user and do not have an active tcp connection to be terminated. Aanuke prints commands that look similar to the slay commands, in the mentioned slay example. | “ |
After typing your Drawterm password, the initial Rio display is a blank grey screen. The passing cpu: failed to chdir to message is not uncommon.
At the Rio blank grey screen, press the right button of your mouse. A menu should appear. Then, release the button over the “New” option.
There is a “Delete” option (above) in addition to the “New” option. This “Delete” option is useful. It will delete a window gracefully.
Now, press the right button again near the upper-left corner of Drawterm, and drag the mouse to the lower-right before releasing the button, drawing a rectangle.
You should now have a Rio terminal window, and rc prompt (%). The first thing you can do is to type “cat readme.rio” (or read it from here if it's missing).
| rio Exit menu option (plan9front) |
There is an “Exit” option in addition to the “Delete” option. This “Exit” option is useful. It will delete rio gracefully. |
| New | |
| Resize | |
| Move | |
| Delete | |
| Hide | |
| Exit | ⇐ exit rio |
| 1. | At the rio grey screen, press the right button of your mouse. A menu (above) should appear.
Then, release the button over the Exit option. A skull face pointer (☠) will appear. |
| a. | Cancel the Exit with a mouse button 1, or button 2 press. The previous pointer will appear. |
| i. | Confirm the Exit with a mouse button 3 press. |
| b. | Press the Enter key once to locate the prompt (%). |
| i. | At the prompt (%) type exit, then press the Enter key, to exit drawterm.  The mentioned exit
is intended as a topic for Boot Camp discussion. Review closing drawterm, the way to quit Plan 9 drawterm. |
| ii. | At the prompt (%) type rio, then press the Enter key, to start rio. |
| 2. | Try item 1., or Exit, while running rio inside another rio window. |
Drawterm1 is essentially a BLIT terminal emulator which allows you to connect to your Plan 9 system and load the Rio windowing system. Rio is a direct successor of UNIX 'layers' and Plan 9 '8½'.
Although missing from the “$ ./drawterm --help” output, the “-r /path/to/local/directory” option will show the “/path/to/local/directory” files in “/mnt/term”. Example: “$ ./drawterm -a YOUR_IP -c YOUR_IP -u glenda -r /path/to/local/directory”. |
| client /root or option -r path |
/ | or | /path/to/local/directory |
| plan9front Drawterm /mnt/term and client created dir foo |
/mnt/term/foo | and | /path/to/local/directory/foo |
cpu% pwd
/mnt/term
cpu% lc -l | grep foo
d-rwx------ M ???? user user ???? Sep 5 06:45 foo/
| Tilde Expansion |
| 3.5.2 Tilde Expansion |
~ | The value of $HOME |
Example: $ ./drawterm -a 9p.sdf.org -h 9p.sdf.org -u USER -r ~/directory |
Verify the Drawterm command line syntax with the “--help” option, if needed. A 9front2 Drawterm comparison is provided.
| Plan 9 Drawterm command | Plan 9 Drawterm output |
$ ./drawterm --help | usage: drawterm [-a authserver] [-c cpuserver] [-s secstore] [-u user] |
| 9front Drawterm command | 9front Drawterm option -h and Plan 9 Drawterm option -c comparison |
$ ./drawterm --help | usage: drawterm [-a authserver] [-h cpuserver] [-s secstore] [-u user] |
| 9front Drawterm command | 9front Drawterm output |
$ ./drawterm --help | usage: drawterm [-GBO] [-h host] [-u user] [-a authserver] [-s secstore] [-e 'crypt hash'] [-k keypattern] [-p] [-t timeout] [-r root] [-c cmd ...] |
