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.HTML Welcome to Plan 9
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Welcome to Plan 9
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This document will introduce you to Plan 9 installations at inter9
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Connecting
.LP
You may connect to Plan 9 thru several ways, namely
.I SSH ,
.I drawterm
and
.I rcpu ;
To connect using
.I SSH
protocol, you may run the following command:
.P1
; ssh rcpu@cloud9p.org
.P2
You'll be greeted a session like following:
.P1
user[glenda]: mkf
cpu[cloud9p.org]: 
auth[cloud9p.org]: 
password:
.P2
If you have made an account in
.I cloud9p.org
default values for it are fine, otherwise, change them to
your
.I cpu
and
.I auth
server(s), respectively.
Some programs (usually ones which use console --
.CW /dev/cons
) can't be used over SSH. these are fairly rare, with only noteable example
being
.CW passwd(8) .
.SH
drawterm
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Drawterm is the native Plan 9 way to connect, it offers more features and is more flexiable
compered to SSH, some of features are:
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Graphics and audio
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Exporting server and client side resources
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9P channel
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automatically reconnecting without session being dropped (AAN)
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etc...
.LP
Drawterm currently supports the following platforms:
Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSDs, Solaris, Android and Web.
You can either compile it from source from:
.CW git://git.9front.org/plan9front/drawterm .
or download a pre-built binary from:
.CW https://cloud9p.org/usr/mkf/drawterm .