Start acme to access the mbox.

  % acme

Start acme.

  % acme

The acme.dump file retains the acme configuration at the time of the dump.

  % acme -l acme.dump

A brief mention of acme, for those who are attending the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp.

1. Press the middle button of your mouse while the pointer is over the text “New” (to the left), in the row marked with a 1.
2. Type the text “win” in the row, or newly created area, marked with a 2.
3. Press the middle button of your mouse while the pointer is over the text “win” in the row, or newly created area, marked with a 2.
4. Type the text “Mail” in the row marked with a 3.
5. Press the middle button of your mouse while the pointer is over the text “Mail”, in the row marked with a 3.

1. Press the right button of your mouse while the pointer is used to highlight a file name.
2. Once the highlight covers the filename, release the right mouse button to open the file.

1.) From a Plan 9 Rio rc prompt.

Sam is a text editor. While the cursor is over the sam window, press the right button of your mouse and drag the cursor over the file name. Release the right mouse button once the cursor is over the file name. The cursor pointer will change to a square. Press the right button, while the square cursor is over the lower panel, to load the file in the lower panel.

  % sam /rc/bin/termrc.local

A few words about (w) writing the file, and how to (q) quit “sam”. Commands (sam -d) are typed in the upper panel, while edits are typed in the lower panel. Press the left mouse button to activate the upper panel, or the lower panel. Type a ‘w’ in the upper panel, then press the carriage return. This saves the file. Type a ‘q’ in the upper panel, then press the carriage return. This quits “sam”.

Sam uses it's own cut/paste buffer. Exchange it with Rio's cut/paste buffer by using the <rio> option in the middle button (2) menu of sam.

The following edit (% sam -d) will work from the VM console rc prompt, or from the upper sam panel.

  % mkdir samlearn
  % cd samlearn

  % cp /lib/ndb/local local2
  % sam -d local2
  -. local2
  /ip=
            “Press the Carriage return, following the line output.”
  s/ip=/#ip=
  $+1
  a
  ip=YOUR_IP sys=plan9 dom=plan9 dns=205.166.94.20
  .
  w
  q
  %

  % cp /rc/bin/termrc.local termrc.local2
  % sam -d termrc.local2
  -. termrc.local2
  $+1
  a
  ip/ipconfig -g 205.166.94.1 ether /net/ether0 YOUR_IP 255.255.255.0
  ndb/cs
  ndb/dns -r
  .
  w
  q
  %

Ed is a text editor, and similar to sam -d. Using the % sam -d examples from Sam, it's possible to use % ed. The mentioned examples are from a Drawterm Rio rc prompt.

  % cd samtest
  % cp /lib/ndb/local local-1ed

  % ed local-1ed
  291
  /ip=
  ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
  s/ip=/#ip=
  #ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
  $
  #ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
  a
  ip=YOUR_IP sys=plan9 dom=plan9 dns=205.166.94.20
  .
  w
  341
  q
  %

  % cp /rc/bin/termrc.local termrc.local-1ed
  % ed termrc.local-1ed

  % ed termrc.local-1ed
  424
  $
  cpu=CP
  a
  ip/ipconfig -g 205.166.94.1 ether /net/ether0 YOUR_IP 255.255.255.0
  ndb/cs
  ndb/dns -r
  .
  w
  510
  q
  %

You can use Abaco to browse the web¹. (Abaco is available in a default Plan 9 system.) You'll need to have your IP configured and DNS working in order to browse the web. After that, you'll have to run “webfs” and then² “abaco”. If you don't have a “/usr/$user/lib/webcookies” file, touch it once. (You may want to add “webfs” in your “$home/lib/profile” just before plumber and rio.)

  % touch /usr/$user/lib/webcookies

  % webfs
  % abaco

When abaco starts, you can go to a webpage by clicking “New” with the middle button of the mouse, typing the address in the row below the one with “Del Snarf Get …” (see the previous figure: it's the one where the current legacy address is), and pressing “[Enter]” on your keyboard. You can follow links by clicking on them, as is usual, with the left button (the shape of the cursor won't change, though).

¹ An http URL. ² Both commands are used on one line with a separator: “% webfs; abaco”. ³ Another way to run Abaco.

mothra - retrieve and display World-Wide Web files

NetSurf is a free, open source web browser.

$home/lib/netsurf/options

enable_javascript:1
cookie_file:/usr/$user/lib/netsurf/cookies
cookie_jar:/usr/$user/lib/netsurf/cookies
search_provider:0

man examples

  % man 1 intro

The -P option converts the page to PostScript.

  % man -P 1 intro

  % man -P 5 intro

  % lookman intro|sed 5q
  man 1 0intro # 0intro(1)
  man 1 bind # bind(1)
  man 1 eqn # eqn(1)
  man 1 hg # hg(1)
  man 1 hoc # hoc(1)

  % lookman intro|tail -n5
  man 8 0intro # 0intro(8)
  man 8 9pcon # 9pcon(8)
  man 8 scanmail # scanmail(8)
  man 8 venti # venti(8)
  man 9 0intro # 0intro(9)

Editor reference:

Editors: List of Plan 9 applications - Wikipedia