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)