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21 <font size=+1><b>Plan 9 from User Space</b></font>
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25 <a href="man/man1/intro.html">overview</a>
27 <a href="screenshots/">screen shots</a>
29 <a href="man/">manual</a>
31 <a href="man/man1/install.html">install notes</a>
33 <a href="/usr/local/plan9/">browse</a>
35 <a href="man/man1/cvs.html">cvs</a>
37 <a href="http://cvs.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/cvs/plan9">cvsweb</a>
39 <a href="unix/">unix</a>
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42 Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port)
43 is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native
44 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/">Plan 9</a>
45 environment to Unix-like operating systems.
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48 <b>supported systems</b>
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52 Linux <font size=-1>(x86, PowerPC, and ARM)</font>,
53 FreeBSD <font size=-1>(x86)</font>,
54 Mac OS X <font size=-1>(Power PC)</font>,
55 NetBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
56 OpenBSD <font size=-1>(x86 and PowerPC)</font>,
57 SunOS <font size=-1>(Sparc)</font>.
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61 <b>getting started</b>
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65 Start with the overview in
66 <a href="man/man1/intro.html"><i>intro</i>(1)</a>.
67 For information on installing the system, see
68 <a href="man/man1/install.html"><i>install</i>(1)</a>.
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76 latest tree: <a href="plan9port.tgz">plan9port.tgz</a>
77 <font size=-1>(<a href="/cgi-bin/info.cgi?file=/plan9port/plan9port.tgz">date and checksums</a>;
78 <a href="/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES">list of recent changes</a>;
79 <a href="/usr/local/plan9/LICENSE">license</a>)</font>
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84 <b>acknowledgements</b>
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89 Most obviously, plan9port derives from
90 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9">Plan 9 from Bell Labs</a>
91 and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the
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96 Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago,
97 as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work.
98 He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide
99 the ugliness of modern Unix.
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103 William Josephson handled
104 <a href="man/man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a>
105 (with Taj Khattra) and many of
106 the supporting programs. He also inspired the thread library
107 clean-up and has ported a handful of applications.
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111 Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant
112 work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning
113 <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>.
114 Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port.
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118 Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs, and
119 got <a href="man/man4/factotum.html"><i>factotum</i>(4)</a> up and running.
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123 Many other people have provided help,
124 ported programs, written bug reports,
125 sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new
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130 Bigelow & Holmes, Inc. created the screen fonts in the
131 <i>luc</i>, <i>lucm</i>, <i>lucsans</i>, and <i>pelm</i>
132 directories and granted permission to redistribute them with plan9port.
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145 Russ Cox <font size=-1>(<a href="mailto:rsc@swtch.com">rsc@swtch.com</a>)
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153 The UTF-8 library, the formatted print library,
154 the buffered I/O library, the (Unicode-capable) regular expression
155 library, and mk are available in packaging separate from plan9port.
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159 See <a href="http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/">http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/</a>.
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167 <a href="http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/9pm/README">
170 of Plan 9 from User Space for Windows. Only for reference.
172 <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ureg.html">
174 </a> − a port of an earlier Plan 9 (including <a href="man/man1/sam.html"><i>sam</i>(1)</a>) to Windows
176 <a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/9term/">
178 </a> − a native X11 version that inspired <a href="man/man1/9term.html"><i>9term</i>(1)</a>
180 <a href="http://unauthorised.org/dhog/9wm.html">David Hogan's 9wm</a>
182 <a href="ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Source/9menu.shar.gz">Arnold Robbins's 9menu</a> − precursor to
183 <a href="man/man1/rio.html"><i>rio</i>(1)</a>
185 <a href="http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/">Byron Rakitzis's rc</a> − a mostly-compatible clone of Plan 9's <a href="man/man1/rc.html"><i>rc</i>(1)</a>
187 <a href="http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/">Gary Capell's wily</a> − an <a href="man/man1/acme.html"><i>acme</i>(1)</a>-inspired editor
