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.TH X 1 .SH NAME x \- tools for dealing with alien systems .SH SYNOPSIS .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .I X is a collection of programs that tries to enable convenient interaction with alien systems of the UNIX® variety from the extreme comfort of Plan 9. .PP These programs rely on the namespace convention whereupon the root hierarchy of the remote system to be interacted with is mounted, usually through .IR sshfs (4), at the .IR mntgen (4) provided mountpoint under .I /x named after the .B user@host login tuple used to mount the system. .PP In this way the working directory of a program is loaded with two bits of information about the remote system: the login that can be used to access it, and the path relative to the remote root - which are exploited by the programs described here to provide some further convenience. .SH SETUP .PP Create the .I /x directory on your root file server and make sure to have the .IR mntgen (4) started somewhere convenient, perhaps in your profile: .EX ; mount -c /srv/boot /n/boot ; mkdir /x ; mntgen /x .EE .SH COMMANDS .PP .I x/mnt .PP .I x/run .PP .I x/man .SH EXAMPLES .SH SEE ALSO .SH SOURCE .SH BUGS