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Boot Camp 9p resource

x	https://9p.sdf.org (an amd64 plan9front¹ complement to the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp²)

The 9p.sdf.org rio rc prompt is accessable with 9front Drawterm or an rcpu connection. A 9p.sdf.org user name (-u USER) is required.

  $ ./drawterm -a 9p.sdf.org -h 9p.sdf.org -u USER

Optional: drawterm -h 9p.sdf.org -u USER

Optional: drawterm -a 9p.sdf.org -h 9p.sdf.org -p -u USER

A Drawterm rc prompt (without rio; teletype only):

  $ ./drawterm -G -h 9p.sdf.org -u USER

x A Drawterm file transfer hint: % lc /mnt/term

Possible "Tea Note" Presentation commands from the 9p rio rc prompt (%).

bboard:	`bboard [-nps] [-r n]`	9p contrib directory
broke:	`broke [ user ]` - broken processes go away	http://man.9front.org/1/kill
castor:	`castor [address]` - A Gemini browser for Plan 9
com:	com - An early version of commode	9p contrib directory
df:	`df` - disk usage	9p contrib directory
dircp:	tar, dircp - archiver	http://man.9front.org/1/tar
auth/factotum:	factotum, fgui, userpasswd - authentication agent³	http://man.9front.org/4/factotum
figlet:	FIGlet - display large characters made up of ordinary screen characters
find:	`find [-1dfq] [path …]`	9p contrib directory
finger:	`toe` - A very basic finger client for plan9/9front.
mkhomepg:		9p contrib directory
mug:	`mug` - convert an image to a face icon	http://man.9front.org/1/mug
p:	`p` - paginate	http://man.9front.org/1/p
top:		9p contrib directory
tweak:	`tweak` - edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc.	http://man.9front.org/1/tweak
upas/fs -f:	upasfs - mail file server	http://man.9front.org/4/upasfs
vdir:	`vdir [-r] [directory]` If the `-r` flag is passed, delete will recursively delete directories. (A minimalistic visual directory browser for Plan9.)	9p contrib directory
who:	who, whois - who is using the machine	http://man.9front.org/1/who

bboard example

A bboard acme example.

date and time example

x	A scheduled Plan 9 Boot Camp TEA NOTE
x	Start the clock in a rio rc window.

  cpu% cp /adm/timezone/US_Pacific /env/timezone && clock.amber

The command will pick up the new timezone, but nothing already running or not sharing the environment will be affected.

broke example

  cpu% psu -a | grep Broke

  cpu% broke

  cpu% broke $user

commode example

  cpu% com
  
  @help
  commode version 6
  
  @h  help
  @f  finger user
  @l  list rooms
  @p  peek into a room
  @g  goto a room
  @w  who
  @i  idlers
  @r  review 50 lines
  @R  review N lines
  @u  post a shortened url
  @a  aNONradio schedule
  @q  quit
  :   emote
  !   run a command

Run com in a rio rc window, rather than a vt, to benefit from the Plan 9 I/O.

face example

A face (create and install) example.

castor example

A castor example.

  cpu% castor gemini://sdf.org

9p mail example

A detailed 9p mail example.

9p rio rc prompt example

  cpu% echo $prompt
  cpu%
  cpu% prompt='9p: '
  9p:
  9p: echo $prompt
  9p:
  9p: prompt='⑨p: '
  ⑨p:

9p html directory example

mkhomepg is used to automate the process. The process includes a 5 to 10 minute wait after mkhomepg & touch, once a background task is preformed.

~~cpu% mkdir /usr/$user/html~~

  cpu% mkhomepg

  cpu% touch /usr/$user/html/index.html

  cpu% sed 10q /usr/$user/html/example.html
  <html>
   <body>
  <h6>1st example</h6>
  
  <pre>
  2nd example
  </pre>
  
   </body>
  </html>
  cpu%

mothra -k https://9p.sdf.org/who/$user/index.html

mothra -k https://9p.sdf.org/~$user

https://9p.sdf.org/who/ links to all of the active homepages.

9p gemini index location

  cpu% touch /usr/$user/html/index.gem

castor gemini://9p.sdf.org/who/$user/index.gem

¹ plan9front running natively on hardware. ² NetBSD Xen [] running Plan 9 Boot Camp participants' VMs, during the announced Plan 9 Boot Camp occurrences. ³ Security in Plan 9; The user may or may not have a secure store in which all his keys are kept.

Reference book

x	Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (pdf; external archive)
x	Previous dedicated links are located at the VPS Plan 9 / 9front tutorial. (wiki)

Conclusion or close

The wiki formatting used in this tutorial was reviewed with the SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp plan9front mothra browser, and the mothra option '-k': % mothra -k. The intention was to support those SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp participants who may participate (in the Boot Camp) with a low-speed Internet connection. The outcome of the mentioned formatting decision is pending the approval of future wiki editors. Have fun.

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