NAME

       drawterm - connect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems

SYNOPSIS

       drawterm  [-d]  [-a authserver] [-c cpuserver] [-e encription_hash_algs] [-k keyspec] [-s secstoreserver]
       [-u username] [-C command args ...]

DESCRIPTION

       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,

OPTIONS

       This program follows the syntax of the cpu(1) Plan 9 command.

       A summary of options is included below.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -a     Specifies the authentication server to use. If not present uses the $auth environment variable, if
              present, or tries with a host name of auth.

       -c     Specifies the cpu server to use. If not present uses the $cpu environment variable, if present, or
              tries with a host name of cpu.

       -u     Specifies the username to authenticate with. If not present uses the $USER  environment  variable,
              if present, or asks interactively for an username.

       -s     Specifies the secstore server to use.

       -C     Specifies a command to be executed remotely.

       -e,-k  Allow for selecting the hash algorithm and keys used, they have the same meaning as in cpu(1).

SOURCE

       In Plan 9 distributions, /sys/src/cmd/unix/drawterm.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Drawterm prints most diagnostics in its own window.

BUGS

       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.

SEE ALSO

       cpu(1), rio(1) in the Plan 9 documentation

AUTHOR

       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                                     DRAWTERM(1)