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     9PCON(8)                                                 9PCON(8)

     NAME
          9pcon - 9P to text translator

     SYNOPSIS
          aux/9pcon [ -cn ] [ -m msize ] service

     DESCRIPTION
          9pcon provides a textual interface to service, a conven-
          tional 9P server.  By default, 9pcon interprets service as a
          file to be opened.  The -c flag causes 9pcon to interpret
          service as a command to run which will carry out a (binary)
          9P conversation over file descriptors 0 and 1.  The -n flag
          causes 9pcon to interpret service as a network address to
          dial.

          Once the connection is established, 9pcon prints R-messages
          as they arrive from the server, and sends T-messages as they
          are typed on standard input.  There is no prompt.  Lines
          beginning with # are ignored.  The syntax for T-messages is
          one of:

               Tversion msize version
               Tauth afid uname aname
               Tattach fid afid uname aname
               Twalk fid newfid wname...
               Topen fid mode
               Tcreate fid name perm mode
               Tread fid offset count
               Twrite fid offset data
               Tclunk fid
               Tremove fid
               Tstat fid
               Twstat fid name uid gid mode mtime length
               Tflush oldtag

          See intro(5) for a description of the fields in each mes-
          sage.  For the most part, the syntax mirrors the description
          of the messages in section 5.  The exceptions are that the
          tags on the T-messages are added automatically; Twalk's
          nwname count is inferred from the number of wnames given;
          and Twstat's dir is in expanded form rather than being an
          opaque byte sequence.  Note that since commands are parsed
          with tokenize (see getfields(2)), it is easy to pass empty
          strings for absent name, uid, and gid fields.  To ease spec-
          ifying default integer fields, the Twstat message recognizes
          ~0 in the mode, mtime, and length arguments.  For example,
              Twstat 101 '' '' sys ~0 ~0 ~0
          sends a wstat message that attempts to change the group id
          associated with fid 101.

     9PCON(8)                                                 9PCON(8)

     SOURCE
          /sys/src/cmd/aux/9pcon.c

     SEE ALSO
          intro(5)

     BUGS
          There should be a flag to wait for responses, to facilitate
          scripting.