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9 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <base href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/">
10 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <title>Plan 9 from User Space</title>
11 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </head>
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17 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <img src="dist/spaceglenda100.png" alt="Space Glenda">
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21 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font>
22 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </center>
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24 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <center>
25 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a>
26 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull |
27 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a>
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29 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/">manual</a>
30 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull |
31 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a>
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33 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/cvs.html">cvs</a>
34 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull |
35 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <a href="http://cvs.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/cvs/plan9">cvsweb</a>
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37 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="unix/">unix</a>
38 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </center>
39 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=10><td></table>
40 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port)
41 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native
42 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/">Plan 9</a>
43 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull environment to Unix-like operating systems.
44 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
45 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table>
46 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>supported systems</b>
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50 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Linux <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
51 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86)</font>,
52 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Mac OS X <font size=-1>(Power PC)</font>,
53 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull SunOS <font size=-1>(Sparc)</font>.
54 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </table>
55 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
56 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table>
57 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>getting started</b>
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61 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Start with the overview in
62 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/intro.html"><i>intro</i>(1)</a>.
63 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull For information on installing the system, see
64 a46ab084 2005-01-16 devnull <a href="man/man1/install.html"><i>install</i>(1)</a>.
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66 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
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68 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>download</b>
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72 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull latest tree: <a href="plan9port.tgz">plan9port.tgz</a>
73 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <font size=-1>(<a href="/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/plan9port/plan9port.tgz">date and checksums</a>;
74 5ce40ffd 2005-02-11 devnull <a href="http://cvs.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/cvs/plan9/CHANGES?rev=HEAD">list of recent changes</a>;
75 5ce40ffd 2005-02-11 devnull <a href="http://cvs.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/cvs/plan9/LICENSE?rev=HEAD">license</a>)</font>
76 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <br>
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79 8b459713 2005-01-24 devnull <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%><tr height=20><td></table>
80 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>acknowledgements</b>
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84 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
85 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Most obviously, plan9port derives from
86 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a>
87 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the
88 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull past many years.
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92 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago,
93 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work.
94 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide
95 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the ugliness of modern Unix.
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98 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
99 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull William Josephson handled
100 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a>
101 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull (with Taj Khattra) and many of
102 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the supporting programs. He also inspired the recent thread library
103 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull clean-up and has ported a handful of applications.
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107 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant
108 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning
109 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>.
110 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port.
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113 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
114 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs.
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117 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
118 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Many other people have provided help,
119 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull ported programs, written bug reports,
120 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new
121 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull systems.
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124 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
125 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Thanks to all.
126 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
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128 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
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130 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>contact</b>
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134 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>)
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138 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>unix extracts</b>
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142 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull The UTF-8 library, the formatted print library,
143 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull the buffered I/O library, the (Unicode-capable) regular expression
144 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull library, and mk are available in packaging separate from plan9port.
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147 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull
148 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>.
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152 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <b>history</b>
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156 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html">
157 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Sean Quinlan's 9pm
158 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </a> &#8722; a port of an earlier Plan 9 (including <a href="man/man1/sam.html"><i>sam</i>(1)</a>) to Windows
159 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <br>
160 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/">
161 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull Matty Farrow's 9term
162 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull </a> &#8722; a native X11 version that inspired <a href="man/man1/9term.html"><i>9term</i>(1)</a>
163 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <br>
164 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html">David Hogan's 9wm</a>
165 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull and
166 aa1d0b1b 2005-01-18 devnull <a href="ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Source/9menu.shar.gz">Arnold Robbins's 9menu</a> &#8722; precursor to
167 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>
168 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <br>
169 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/">Byron Rakitzis's rc</a> &#8722; a mostly-compatible clone of Plan 9's <a href="man/man1/rc.html"><i>rc</i>(1)</a>
170 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <br>
171 78e51a8c 2005-01-14 devnull <a href="http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/">Gary Capell's wily</a> &#8722; an <a href="man/man1/acme.html"><i>acme</i>(1)</a>-inspired editor
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