Wednesday 21 October 2009 - Overdue Hubfs announcement - improved "screen" utility
Since this has been up on sources for several months now, I really should have announced this here already. Hubfs is an improved screen-like tool for Plan 9, implemented as a 9p fs with client. It is much more resource efficient than iosrv and, as a 9p fs, much better integrated into the overall system. The user interface is also much more sane. It can be installed from the source tarball contrib/mycroftiv/hubfs.tgz, or with contrib/install mycroftiv/hubfs. Basic usage is just 'hub NAME' to either start a new shell/hub session or connect to an existing. The manpage explains most of the details. Following completion of a solid version of hubfs I hit the burnout threshold as a result of several months of 16 hours a day of Plan 9 and retreated to a remote corner of namespace for a couple months. With the arrival of the winter months, however, I have a good excuse to turn on all my computers in the service of home heating, and undoubtedly this will result in a renewed burst of development energy.