Hello,

I read my email on a remote Unix machine which I access from a few terminals
via ssh. The terminals are also Unix hosts (usually OS X). This works great
for reading text. However, I frequently receive attachements. What I'd like
to be able to do is export at least my plumber over the ssh connection to the
remote host so I can display the attachments locally. This seems to be the
opposite of what import(1) does. I guess what I want is cpu(1) for
plan9port... or at least a limited version of it.

This seems like it should be doable, but I think I'm looking at it the wrong
way.

Any suggestions? (Unfortunately the Unix boxes and Word documents aren't
going away any time soon for me...)

Thanks,

Jon

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Jon Dugan x1024.net> wrote:

You have two problems here:
1) Accessing plan 9's plumber from unix
2) Accessing unix files (attachments) from plan 9

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i.e. imap.

- erik

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:57 PM, sqweek gmail.com> wrote:

Whoops, I missed the note about terminals being unix, and thought
they were plan 9 terminals (funny assumption to make in 9fans, I
know). You'll have to take that as "imagine if you were running plan
9, then you could just do this" ;)
I thought Enrico did some work on serving across the network from
p9p, but I don't see anything in hg about it. That will probably be
your main sticking point, problem 2 doesn't change much.
-sqweek

Let me make sure I understand the problem right: you have p9p
installed on two Unix boxes, A and B. Sitting at A, you ssh to B to
read your mail, and want to be able to plumb (or something
similar) attachments and have applications on A display them.
I presume you're also using non-p9p applications to view the
attachments.

If that's right, the problem is in two parts: having B feed
messages to the plumber on B, and having B find the files
referenced.

You can probably make the terminal mount the server; do so.
How doesn't matter: v9fs, fuse, nfs, afp, whatever. Just get it at,
say, /mnt/B. Make a plumbing rule that checks for files in
/mnt/B (after the normal check for files). You want
arg isfile /mnt/B/$1
or something very similar in that rule. Now when you plumb
/home/me/attachment1, after not finding that file locally
your plumber will look for /mnt/B/home/me/attachment1.
Have the 'plumb start' bit call open or OpenOffice or whatnot.