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Inferno Reference


This reference contains a details of the Inferno utilities and commands. They are grouped as follows:

Command Line Utilities

Environmental Utilities

Limbo Modules

Inferno Devices

Inferno File Protocol, Styx

Format Specifications

Daemons

Command Line Utilities

bind

change name space

cat

concatenate files

cd

change working directory

chmod

change file mode (permissions)

cmp

compare files

cp

copy file

cs

start connection server daemon

date

print the date

diff

differential file comparator

du

disk usage

echo

print arguments

grep

search file(s) for a pattern

kill

terminate process(es)

ls

list contents of directory

mathcalc

interface to a TclLib calculator module

mkdir

make a directory

mv

rename/move files

netstat

rename/move files

nsbuild

build Inferno name space

os

interface OS commands (non-native Inferno only)

p

paginate

ps

process status

pwd

print working directory

rm

remove file(s)

sh

command line interface to the Inferno system

sleep

suspend execution for an interval

time

time command execution

unicode

interpret Unicode characters

wcwish

word (and other things) counter

wish

interface to the Tk graphics toolkit

Environmental Utilities

asm

Dis assembler

emu

Inferno emulator

limbo

Limbo compiler

mk

Maintain (make) related files. See the chapter on Using Mk in the Inferno Build Guide.

Draw Modules

context

graphics environment

display

connection to draw device

font

character images for Unicode text

image

pictures and drawing

point

coordinate position

pointer

state of a pointer device such as a mouse

rectangle

rectangular portion of the plane

screen

type to define the abstract data structures for the windows on a display, or subwindows within a window

Keyring Modules

auth

authenticate a connection

certtostr

encryption key conversion functions

gensk

generate keys

getstring

delimited I/O

ipint

infinite precision integer utility functions

login

get an Authinfo adt from a certificate authority

sign

cryptographic digests and digital signatures

Library Module

daytime

time conversions

filepat

file pattern matching

newns

build a new name space from a description file

pipe

get read/write file pair for a pipe

readdir

read directory and sort files

string

string operations

workdir

discover the name of the current working directory

Math Modules

elem

elementary functions of applied mathematics

fp

floating point operations

linalg

linear algebra primitives

Prefab Modules

compound

windows for ITV toolkit

element

menu and display elements for ITV toolkit

environ

environment for ITV toolkit to provide a graphics framework for a item collections

style

fonts and colors for ITV toolkit

System Modules

bind

change file name space

byte2char

convert between bytes and characters

chdir

change working directory

dial

make network connections

dirread

read directory

dup

duplicate an open file descriptor

file2chan

create file connected to Limbo channel

millisec

millisecond timer

open

open/create a file for reading or writing

pctl

process control

print

print formatted output

read

read or write file

remove

remove a file

seek

change file offset

sleep

delay execution

stat

get and put file status

tokenize

split string into words

utfbytes

compute the Unicode length of a UTF byte sequence

Toolkit Modules

tk

graphics toolkit

tklib

Tk user interface functions

Miscellaneous Modules

bufio

buffered input/output module

devpointer

I/O interface for the pointer device

imagefile

processing external image file formats

ir

infrared remote control

login

introduction to the Login module

mpeg

interface to the mpeg device driver

regex

regular expression recognizer

sh

command interface

srv

miscellaneous services from the host operating system

volume

volume control for an infrared interface

wmlib

window manager toolkit

Inferno Devices

cons

console device

cmd

interface to host operating system commands

draw

graphics device

ip

TCP, UDP network protocols over IP

prog

interface to running programs

root

the root file system

ssl

secure sockets layer device

Inferno file protocol, Styx

attach

messages to initiate activity

clone

duplicate a fid

clunk

forget about a fid

error

return an error

flush

abort a message

open

prepare a fid for I/O on an existing or new file

read

transfer data from and to a file

remove

remove a file from a server

stat

inquire or change file attributes

styx

C interface to Inferno file protocol

walk

descend a directory hierarchy

Format Specifications

db

connection service database

font

external format for character fonts and subfonts

image

external format for images

rgbv

color map

utf

character set and format

Daemons

cs

connection server daemon

httpd

HTTP server



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