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1. Commands

2. System Calls and Libraries

3. Kernel Devices

4. File Services

5. Plan 9 File Protocol

6. File Formats

7. Databases and Access Programs

8. Maintenance Commands

Manual — Plan9 3rd Edition

394 entries

1. Commands

intro, 0introintroduction to Plan 9
0a, 1a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 8a, 9a, ka, qa, va, xa, 2aassemblers
0c, 1c, 4c, 5c, 6c, 7c, 8c, 9c, kc, qc, vc, xc, 2cC compilers
0l, 1l, 4l, 5l, 6l, 7l, 8l, 9l, kl, ql, vl, xl, 2lloaders
aciddebugger
win, awd, acmeinteractive text windows
ararchive and library maintainer
unicode, asciiinterpret ASCII, Unicode characters
awkpattern-directed scanning and processing language
basenamestrip file name affixes
bcarbitrary-precision arithmetic language
mount, unmount, bindchange name space
light, pencal, keyboard, params, prompter, bitsyloadbitsy-specific utilities
bundlecollect files for distribution
calprint calendar
calendarprint upcoming events
read, catcatenate files
chgrpchange file group
chmodchange mode
cleannameclean a path name
cmpcompare two files
getmap, colorsdisplay color map
commselect or reject lines common to two sorted files
uncompress, zcat, compresscompress and expand data
telnet, rx, xms, xmr, conremote login, execution, and XMODEM file transfer
mv, cpcopy, move files
cppC language preprocessor
cpuconnection to cpu server
iconv, cropframe, crop, and convert image
clock, datedate and time
dbdebugger
dcdesk calculator
ddconvert and copy a file
delatex, deroffremove formatting requests
diffdifferential file comparator
olefs, mswordstrings, doc2txtextract printable strings from Microsoft Word documents
doctypeintuit command line for formatting a document
dudisk usage
echoprint arguments
edtext editor
emacseditor macros
eqntypeset mathematics
seemail, vwhois, facesmailbox interface
primes, factorfactor a number, generate large primes
filedetermine file type
fmtultra-simple text formatter
fortunesample lines from a file
freqprint histogram of character frequencies
grappic preprocessor for drawing graphs
graphdraw a graph
grepsearch a file for a pattern
gsAladdin Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter)
gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, zip, unzip, gzipcompress and expand data
hgetretrieve a web page corresponding to a url
historyprint file names from the dump
hocinteractive floating point language
joinrelational database operator
gif, ppm, togif, toppm, topng, jpgview and convert pictures
slay, broke, killprint commands to kill processes
ktraceinterpret kernel stack dumps
leakexamine family of processes for memory leaks
lensinteractive screen magnifier
lexgenerator of lexical analysis programs
lookfind lines in a sorted list
lpprinter output
lc, lslist contents of directory
marshal, nedmail, send, aliasmail, smtp, smtpd, vwhois, filter, fs, biff, pop3, mailmail commands
lookman, manprint or find pages of this manual
mcmulticolumn print
membername, mkmaintain (make) related files
mkdirmake a directory
html2ms, ms2htmlconvert between troff’s ms macros and html
netstatsummarize network connections
newsprint news items
nmname list (symbol table)
nsdisplay name space
ppaginate
pageview FAX, image, graphic, PostScript, PDF, and typesetter output files
netkey, iam, passwdchange user password
pccAPE C compiler driver
tpic, pictroff and tex preprocessors for drawing pictures
pipefileattach filter to file in name space
plotgraphics filter
plumbsend message to plumber
prprint file
tprof, kprof, profdisplay profiling data
prooftroff output interpreter
psu, psprocess status
pbd, pwdworking directory
cd, eval, exec, exit, flag, rfork, shift, wait, whatis, ., ~, rccommand language
label, window, wloc, riowindow system
rmremove files
B, sam.save, samscreen editor with structural regular expressions
sedstream editor
seqprint sequences of numbers
sizeprint size of executable files
sleepsuspend execution for an interval
sortsort and/or merge files
sprog, spellfind spelling errors
spinverification tool for concurrent systems
splitsplit a file into pieces
srcfind source code for executable
sshserve, scp, sshsecure login and file copy from/to Unix or Plan 9
start, stopprint commands to stop and start processes
stringsextract printable strings
stripremove symbols from binary files
md5sum, sha1sum, sumsum and count blocks in a file
syscalltest a system call
taildeliver the last part of a file
32vfs, cpiofs, tapfs, tarfs, tpfs, v6fs, v10fs, tapefsmount archival file systems
tararchiver
tblformat tables for nroff or troff
tcstranslate character sets
teepipe fitting
pq, iwhois, tellook in phone book
testset status according to condition
timetime a command
touchset modification date of a file
trtranslate characters
nroff, trofftext formatting and typesetting
troff2htmlconvert troff output into HTML
tweakedit image files, subfont files, face files, etc. 
uniqreport repeated lines in a file
unitsconversion program
unmimecrack a mime mail message
0i, 5i, 9i, ki, xi, viinstruction simulators
vncviewerremote frame buffer viewer
vtemulate a VT-100 or VT-220 terminal
wcword count
whois, whowho is using the machine
xdhex, octal, decimal, or ASCII dump
yaccyet another compiler-compiler
yesterdayprint file names from the dump

2. System Calls and Libraries

intro, 0introintroduction to library functions
Fid, File, Req, Srv, Tree, allocmap, allocfid, allocfidpool, allocreq, allocreqpool, caninsertkey, closefid, deletekey, fcreate, freefid, freemap, freereq, fremove, fwalk, mktree, fdirread, insertkey, lookupfid, lookupkey, lookupreq, srv, postmountsrv, readbuf, readstr, respond, threadpostmountsrv, _lib9p_emalloc, _lib9p_erealloc, _lib9p_estrdup, 9p9P file server functions
abortgenerate a fault
labs, absinteger absolute values
accessdetermine accessibility of file
subpt, mulpt, divpt, rectaddpt, rectsubpt, insetrect, canonrect, eqpt, eqrect, ptinrect, rectinrect, rectXrect, rectclip, combinerect, Dx, Dy, Pt, Rect, Rpt, addptarithmetic on points and rectangles
allocimagemix, freeimage, nameimage, namedimage, setalpha, loadimage, cloadimage, unloadimage, readimage, writeimage, bytesperline, wordsperline, allocimageallocating, freeing, reading, writing images
ARGBEGIN, ARGEND, ARGC, ARGF, EARGF, arginit, argopt, argprocess option letters from argv
add3, sub3, neg3, div3, mul3, eqpt3, closept3, dot3, cross3, len3, dist3, unit3, midpt3, lerp3, reflect3, nearseg3, pldist3, vdiv3, vrem3, pn2f3, ppp2f3, fff2p3, pdiv4, add4, sub4, arith3operations on 3-d points and planes
assertcheck program invariants
atoi, atol, atoll, charstod, strtod, strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, atofconvert text to numbers
amount, srvauth, authnonce, srvauthnonce, authenticate, getchal, chalreply, vncchal, vncreply, apopchal, apopreply, cramchal, cramreply,   newns, addns, authdial, passtokey, nvcsum, convT2M, convM2T, convTR2M, convM2TR, convA2M, convM2A, convPR2M, convM2PR, login, httpauth, noworld, authnetwork authentication
binalloc, bingrow, binfree, bingrouped memory allocation
mount, unmount, bindchange name space
Bopen, Binit, Binits, Brdline, Bgetc, Bgetrune, Bgetd, Bungetc, Bungetrune, Bread, Bseek, Boffset, Bfildes, Blinelen, Bputc, Bputrune, Bprint, Bwrite, Bflush, Bterm, Bbuffered, biobuffered input/output
sbrk, brkchange memory allocation
agefont, loadchar, Subfont, Fontchar, Font, cachecharsfont utilities
chdirchange working directory
cleannameclean a path name
cmap2rgb, cmap2rgba, rgb2cmap, colorcolors and color maps
Control, Controlset, activate, closecontrol, closecontrolset, controlcalled, controlwire, createbox, createbutton, createentry, createkeyboard, createlabel, createradiobutton, createscribble, createslider, createtext, createtextbutton, ctlerror, ctlmalloc, ctlrealloc, ctlstrdup, deactivate, freectlfont, freectlimage, initcontrols, namectlfont, namectlimage, newcontrolset, printctl, resizecontrolset, controlinteractive graphical controls
times, cputimecpu time in this process and children
localtime, gmtime, asctime, tm2sec, timezone, ctimeconvert date and time
isalpha, isupper, islower, isdigit, isxdigit, isalnum, isspace, ispunct, isprint, isgraph, iscntrl, isascii, toascii, _toupper, _tolower, toupper, tolower, ctypeASCII character classification
cisctrace, risctrace, ciscframe, riscframe, localaddr, symoff, fpformat, beieee80ftos, beieeesftos, beieeedftos, leieee80ftos, leieeesftos, leieeedftos, ieeesftos, ieeedftos, debuggermachine-independent debugger functions
showleak, malloc, mallocz, free, realloc, calloc, msize, setmalloctag, setrealloctag, getmalloctag, getrealloctag, malloctopoolblock, debugmallocdebugging memory allocator
hangup, announce, listen, accept, reject, netmkaddr, setnetmtpt, dialmake and break network connections
dirreadread directory
opendisk, biosfake, diskgeneric disk device interface
Image, gendraw, drawreplxy, drawrepl, replclipr, line, poly, fillpoly, bezier, bezspline, fillbezier, fillbezspline, ellipse, fillellipse, arc, fillarc, icossin, icossin2, border, string, stringn, runestring, runestringn, stringbg, stringnbg, runestringbg, runestringnbg, _string, ARROW, drawsetdebug, drawgraphics functions
dupduplicate an open file descriptor
decrypt, netcrypt, encryptDES encryption
werrstr, errstrdescription of last system call error
einit, estart, estartfn, etimer, eread, emouse, ekbd, ecanread, ecanmouse, ecankbd, ereadmouse, eatomouse, eresized, egetrect, edrawgetrect, emenuhit, emoveto, esetcursor, Event, Mouse, Menu, eventgraphics events
execl, _clock, _privates, _nprivates, execexecute a file
_exits, atexit, atexitdont, terminate, exitsterminate process, process cleanup
log, log10, pow, pow10, sqrt, expexponential, logarithm, power, square root
Fcall, convS2M, convD2M, convM2S, convM2D, getS, fcallconv, dirconv, dirmodeconv, fcallinterface to Plan 9 File protocol
fd2pathreturn file name associated with file descriptor
getc, getchar, fputc, putc, putchar, ungetc, fgets, gets, fputs, puts, fread, fwrite, fgetcStdio input and output
deflateinit, deflate, deflatezlib, deflateblock, deflatezlibblock, inflateinit, inflate, inflatezlib, inflateblock, inflatezlibblock, flateerr, mkcrctab, blockcrc, adler32, flatedeflate compression
fabs, fmod, ceil, floorabsolute value, remainder, floor, ceiling functions
freopen, fdopen, fileno, fclose, sopenr, sopenw, sclose, fflush, setvbuf, setbuf, fgetpos, ftell, fsetpos, fseek, rewind, feof, ferror, clearerr, fopenstandard buffered input/output package
rfork, forkmanipulate process resources
printf, sprintf, snprintf, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf, fprintfprint formatted output
frinit, frsetrects, frinittick, frclear, frcharofpt, frptofchar, frinsert, frdelete, frselect, frtick, frselectpaint, frdrawsel, frdrawsel0, frgetmouse, frameframes of text
ldexp, modf, frexpsplit into mantissa and exponent
scanf, sscanf, vfscanf, fscanfscan formatted input
fauth, fsessionset up authentication on a file descriptor to a file server
getcallerpcfetch return PC of current function
putenv, getenvaccess environment variables
setfcr, getfsr, setfsr, getfcrcontrol floating point
tokenize, getfieldsbreak a string into fields
getppid, getpidget process ids
sysname, getuserget user or system name
getwdget current directory
Display, Point, Rectangle, Cursor, initdraw, geninitdraw, drawerror, initdisplay, closedisplay, getdefont, getwindow, gengetwindow, flushimage, bufimage, lockdisplay, unlockdisplay, cursorswitch, cursorset, openfont, buildfont, freefont, Pconv, Rconv, strtochan, chantostr, chantodepth, graphicsinteractive graphics
hypotEuclidean distance
eipconv, parseip, parseipmask, v4parseip, v4parsecidr, parseether, myipaddr, myetheraddr, maskip, equivip, defmask, isv4, v4tov6, v6tov4, nhgetl, nhgets, hnputl, hnputs, readipifc, ipInternet protocol
islowerrune, isspacerune, istitlerune, isupperrune, tolowerrune, totitlerune, toupperrune, isalpharuneUnicode character classes and cases
initkeyboard, ctlkeyboard, closekeyboard, keyboardkeyboard control
setupDESstate, des_key_setup, block_cipher, desCBCencrypt, desCBCdecrypt, desECBencrypt, desECBdecrypt, des3CBCencrypt, des3CBCdecrypt, des3ECBencrypt, des3ECBdecrypt, key_setup, des56to64, des64to56, setupDES3state, triple_block_cipher, md4, md5, sha1, hmac_md5, hmac_sha1, dec64, enc64, dec32, enc32, genrandom, prng, genprime, gensafeprime, genstrongprime, DSAprimes, probably_prime, smallprimetest, setupRC4state, rc4, rc4skip, rc4back, crtpre, crtin, crtout, crtprefree, crtresfree, rsagen, rsaencrypt, rsadecrypt, rsaalloc, rsafree, rsapuballoc, rsapubfree, rsaprivalloc, rsaprivfree, rsaprivtopub, X509toRSApub, eggen, egencrypt, egdecrypt, egsign, egverify, egalloc, egfree, egpuballoc, egpubfree, egprivalloc, egprivfree, egsigalloc, egsigfree, egprivtopub, libseccryptographic security library
canlock, unlock, qlock, canqlock, qunlock, rlock, runlock, wlock, wunlock, incref, decref, lockshared memory spin locks, rendez-vous locks, reader-writer locks, and atomic increment and decrement
crackhdr, machbytype, machbyname, newmap, setmap, findseg, unusemap, loadmap, attachproc, get1, get2, get4, get8, put1, put2, put4, put8, beswab, beswal, beswav, leswab, leswal, leswav, machmachine-independent access to executable files
mallocz, free, realloc, calloc, msize, setmalloctag, setrealloctag, getmalloctag, getrealloctag, malloctopoolblock, mallocmemory allocator
ident, matmul, matmulr, determinant, adjoint, invertmat, xformpoint, xformpointd, xformplane, pushmat, popmat, rot, qrot, scale, move, xform, ixform, persp, look, viewport, matrixGeometric transformations
Memimage, Memdata, Memdrawparam, memimageinit, wordaddr, byteaddr, memimagemove, allocmemimage, allocmemimaged, readmemimage, creadmemimage, writememimage, freememimage, memsetchan, loadmemimage, cloadmemimage, unloadmemimage, memfillcolor, memarc, mempoly, memellipse, memfillpoly, memimageline, memimagedraw, drawclip, memlinebbox, memlineendsize, allocmemsubfont, openmemsubfont, freememsubfont, memsubfontwidth, getmemdefont, memimagestring, iprint, hwdraw, memdrawdrawing routines for memory-resident images
memdraw, memlalloc, memldelete, memlexpose, memlfree, memlhide, memline, memlnorefresh, memload, memunload, memlorigin, memlsetrefresh, memltofront, memltofrontn, memltorear, memltorearn, memlayerwindows of memory-resident images
memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, memorymemory operations
mktempmake a unique file name
initmouse, readmouse, closemouse, moveto, cursorswitch, getrect, drawgetrect, menuhit, setcursor, mousemouse control
 mpsetminbits, mpnew, mpfree, mpbits, mpnorm, mpcopy, mpassign, mprand, strtomp, mpconv, mptoa, betomp, mptobe, letomp, mptole, mptoui, uitomp, mptoi, itomp, uvtomp, mptouv, vtomp, mptov, mpdigdiv, mpadd, mpsub, mpleft, mpright, mpmul, mpexp, mpmod, mpdiv, mpcmp, mpextendedgcd, mpinvert, mpsignif, mplowbits0, mpvecdigmuladd, mpvecdigmulsub, mpvecadd, mpvecsub, mpveccmp, mpvecmul, mpmagcmp, mpmagadd, mpmagsub, crtpre, crtin, crtout, crtprefree, crtresfree, mpextended precision arithmetic
umuldiv, muldivhigh-precision multiplication and division
NaN, Inf, isNaN, isInf, nannot-a-number and infinity functions
ndbopen, ndbcat, ndbclose, ndbreopen, ndbsearch, ndbsnext, ndbgetval, ndbfree, ipattr, ndbipinfo, csipinfo, ndbhash, ndbparse, csgetval, ndblookval, dnsquery, ndbnetwork database
noted, atnotify, notifyhandle asynchronous process notification
objtype, readobj, objtraverse, isar, nextar, readar, objectobject file interpretation functions
create, close, openopen a file for reading or writing, create file
syslog, sysfatal, perrorsystem error messages
pipecreate an interprocess channel
eplumb, plumbfree, plumbopen, plumbsend, plumblookup, plumbpack, plumbpackattr, plumbaddattr, plumbdelattr, plumbrecv, plumbunpack, plumbunpackpartial, plumbunpackattr, Plumbmsg, plumbplumb messages
poolalloc, poolfree, poolmsize, poolrealloc, poolcompact, poolcheck, poolblockcheck, pooldump, poolgeneral memory management routines
postnotesend a note to a process or process group
fprint, sprint, snprint, seprint, fmtinstall, strconv, Strconv, numbconv, fltconv, doprint, printprint formatted output
privfree, privallocper-process private storage management
rdproto, protoparse and process a proto file listing
pushsslattach SSL version 2 encryption to a communication channel
qball3-d rotation controller
qsortquicker sort
qtom, mtoq, qadd, qsub, qneg, qmul, qdiv, qunit, qinv, qlen, slerp, qmid, qsqrt, quaternionQuaternion arithmetic
quotestrdup, quoterunestrdup, unquotestrdup, unquoterunestrdup, quotestrconv, quoterunestrconv, quotefmtinstall, doquote, quotequoted character strings
lrand, frand, nrand, lnrand, srand, truerand, n_truerand, fastrand, randrandom number generator
readn, write, pread, pwrite, read9p, write9p, readread or write file
RGB, writecolmap, readcolmapaccess display color map
regcomp, regcomplit, regcompnl, regexec, regsub, rregexec, rregsub, regerror, regexpregular expression
removeremove a file
rendezvoususer level process synchronization
runetochar, chartorune, runelen, runenlen, fullrune, utflen, utfnlen, utfrune, utfrrune, utfutf, runerune/UTF conversion
runestrncat, runestrcmp, runestrncmp, runestrcpy, runestrncpy, runestrecpy, runestrlen, runestrchr, runestrrchr, runestrdup, runestrstr, runestrcatrune string operations
scribblealloc, recognize, scribblecharacter recognition
openscsi, scsiready, scsicmd, scsierror, scsiSCSI device operations
seekchange file offset
segdetach, segfree, segattachmap/unmap a segment in virtual memory
segbrkchange memory allocation
segflushflush instruction and data caches
longjmp, notejmp, setjmpnon-local goto
cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, atan2, sintrigonometric functions
cosh, tanh, sinhhyperbolic functions
alarm, sleepdelay, ask for delayed note
fstat, wstat, fwstat, dirstat, dirfstat, dirwstat, dirfwstat, statget and put file status
strncat, strcmp, strncmp, cistrcmp, cistrncmp, strcpy, strncpy, strecpy, strlen, strchr, strrchr, strpbrk, strspn, strcspn, strtok, strdup, strstr, cistrstr, strcatstring operations
s_alloc, s_append, s_array, s_copy, s_error, s_free, s_incref, s_memappend, s_nappend, s_new, s_newalloc, s_parse, s_reset, s_restart, s_terminate, s_tolower, s_putc, s_unique, s_grow, s_read, s_read_line, s_getline, stringextensible strings
stringwidth, stringnwidth, runestringsize, runestringwidth, runestringnwidth, stringsizegraphical size of strings
allocsubfont, freesubfont, installsubfont, lookupsubfont, uninstallsubfont, subfontname, readsubfont, readsubfonti, writesubfont, stringsubfont, strsubfontwidth, mkfont, subfontsubfont manipulation
syminit, getsym, symbase, pc2sp, pc2line, textseg, line2addr, lookup, findlocal, getauto, findsym, localsym, globalsym, textsym, file2pc, fileelem, filesym, fileline, fnbound, symbolsymbol table access functions
alt, chancreate, chanfree, chaninit, proccreate, procdata, procexec, procexecl, procrfork, recv, recvp, recvul, send, sendp, sendul, nbrecv, nbrecvp, nbrecvul, nbsend, nbsendp, nbsendul, threadchdir, threadcreate, threaddata, threadexits, threadexitsall, threadgetgrp, threadgetname, threadkill, threadkillgrp, threadmain, threadnonotes, threadpid, threadprint, threadsetgrp, threadsetname, threadwaitchan, yield, threadthread and proc management
nsec, timetime in seconds and nanoseconds since epoch
tmpnam, tmpfileStdio temporary files
waitwait for a process to exit
Screen, allocscreen, publicscreen, freescreen, allocwindow, bottomwindow, bottomnwindows, topwindow, topnwindows, originwindow, windowwindow management

3. Kernel Devices

intro, 0introintroduction to the Plan 9 devices
apmAdvanced Power Management 1.2 BIOS interface
archarchitecture-specific information and control
audioSoundBlaster audio controller
consconsole, clocks, process/process group ids, user, null, etc. 
drawscreen graphics
dupdups of open files
envenvironment variables
etherEthernet device
floppyfloppy disk interface
i82365Personal Computer Memory Card Interface Association (PCMCIA) device
ipnetwork protocols over IP
kprofkernel profiling
loopbacknetwork link simulation
lptparallel port interface for PC’s
mntattach to 9P servers
cursor, mousekernel mouse interface
pipetwo-way interprocess communication
procrunning processes
rootthe root file system
rtcreal-time clock and non-volatile RAM
sdstorage device interface
srvserver registry
sslSSL record layer
duart, eia, astar, uartserial communication control
vgaVGA controller device

4. File Services

intro, 0introintroduction to file servers
acmecontrol files for text windows
agentauthentication management
archfsmount mkfs-style archive
authfspresent different authentication files
cdfsCD reader and writer file system
cfscache file system
C, clog, consolefsfile system for console access
9660srv, a:, b:, c:, d:, 9fat:, dosmnt, eject, dossrvDOS and ISO9660 file systems
srvfs, exportfsnetwork file server plumbing
fsfile server, dump
ftpfsfile transfer protocol (FTP) file system
importimport a name space from a remote system
iostatsfile system to measure I/O
warning, keyfsauthentication database files
kfsdisk file system
namespacestructure of conventional file name space
nntpfsnetwork news transport protocol (NNTP) file system
plumberfile system for interprocess messaging
ramfsmemory file system
rdbfsremote kernel debugging file system
riowindow system files
sacfscompressed file system
snapfs, snapcreate and mount process snapshots
9fs, srvstart network file service
32vfs, cpiofs, tapfs, tarfs, tpfs, v6fs, v10fs, tapefsmount archival file systems
faxreceive, faxsend, fax, telcofax, telcodata, telcotelephone dialer network
u9fsserve 9P from Unix

5. Plan 9 File Protocol

intro, 0introintroduction to the Plan 9 File Protocol, 9P
session, nop, attachmessages to initiate activity
cloneduplicate a fid
clunkforget about a fid
clwalkclone, then search a directory, and change to a file within it
errorreturn an error
flushabort a message
create, openprepare a fid for I/O on an existing or new file
write, readtransfer data from and to a file
removeremove a file from a server
wstat, statinquire or change file attributes
walkdescend a directory hierarchy

6. File Formats

intro, 0introintroduction to file formats
a.outobject file format
ararchive (library) file format
ticket, authauthentication service
colorrepresentation of pixels and colors
faceface files
subfont, fontexternal format for fonts and subfonts
imageexternal format for images
keyboardhow to type characters
manmacros to typeset manual
mapdigitized map formats
mpicturespicture inclusion macros
msmacros for formatting manuscripts
namespacename space description file
ndbNetwork database
plotgraphics interface
plumbformat of plumb messages and rules
regexpregular expression notation
rewritemail rewrite rules
smtpdSMTP listener configuration
snapprocess snapshots
usersfile server user list format
UTF, Unicode, ASCII, rune, utfcharacter set and format
vgadbVGA controller and monitor database

7. Databases and Access Programs

intro, 0introintroduction to databases
astroprint astronomical information
dictdictionary browser
jukeCDROM juke box
mapdemo, mapdraw maps on various projections
scatsky catalogue and Digitized Sky Survey

8. Maintenance Commands

intro, 0introintroduction to system administration
ld, 9loadPC bootstrap program
apmAdvanced Power Management 1.2 BIOS interface
changeuser, wrkey, convkeys, convkeys2, printnetkey, status, auth.srv, guard.srv, login, authmaintain authentication databases
bootconnect to the root file server
bootingbootstrapping procedures
termrc, cpurcboot script
cronclock daemon
rarpd, tftpd, dhcpdInternet booting
drawtermconnect to Plan 9 CPU servers from other operating systems
exsort, fsfile server maintenance
fsconfigconfiguring a file server
echo, save, imagemap, man2html, httpdHTTP server
initinitialize machine upon booting
rip, ipconfigInternet configuration and routing
telnetd, rlogind, rexexec, ftpd, imap4d, ipservInternet remote access daemons
ksync, kfscmdkfs administration
il7, il9, il19, il565, il566, il17007, il17008, il17009, il17013, il17031, tcp7, tcp9, tcp19, tcp21, tcp23, tcp25, tcp53, tcp110, tcp113, tcp143, tcp513, tcp515, tcp564, tcp565, tcp566, tcp567, tcp993, tcp17007, tcp17009, tcp17013, listenlisten for calls on a network device
lpPostScript preprocessors
mk9660create an ISO-9660 CD image
mkext, mkfsarchive or update a file system
mksacfsmake a compressed file system
aux/mouse, aux/accupoint, mouseconfigure a mouse to a port
naassembler for the Symbios Logic PCI-SCSI I/O Processors
query, mkhash, mkdb, cs, csquery, dns, dnsquery, ipquery, dnsdebug, mkhosts, ndbnetwork database
newuseradding a new user
portmapper, pcnfsd, 9auth, nfsserverNFS service
pcmciaidentify a PCMCIA card
gping, traceroute, pingprobe the Internet
plan9.iniconfiguration file for PCs
pptpd, ppppoint to point protocol
fdisk, format, mbr, prepprepare hard and floppy diskettes, flashes
runq, qerqueue management for spooled files
rebootreboot the system upon loss of remote file server connection
testscan, scanmailspam filters
scuzzSCSI target control
securenetDigital Pathways SecureNet Key remote authentication box
sniffer, snoopyspy on Ethernet packets
statsdisplay graphs of system activity
swapestablish a swap file
timesyncsynchronize the system clock to a time source
udpechoecho UDP packets
bootfloppy, bootplan9, bootwin9x, bootwinnt, personalize, setup.9fat, setup.disk, setup.kfs, updateadministration for local file systems
vgaconfigure a VGA card
create, info, inst, wdiff, wrapsoftware package preparation

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