advanced.1 revision 1.1 
1Using the file advanced.1.conf, we might obtain the following results:
2
3% mkdir /p
4% mount `pwd`/advanced.1.conf /p
5% cat /p/tcp/localhost/daytime
6Tue Jul  6 01:09:15 1999
7
8% cat /p/fs//etc/rc	# Note the double /, as fs/ is stripped.
9<contents of /etc/rc>
10
11% cat /p/fs/etc/rc	# Since the daemon does a chdir to /, we
12			# don't really need to specify the extra slash.
13<contents of /etc/rc>
14
15% cat /p/echo/echo/this/message
16echo/this/message
17
18% cat /p/echo/"This has spaces in it, but is protected by quotes"
19This has spaces in it, but is protected by quotes
20
21% cat /p/echo_nostrip/thisthat
22echo_nostrip/thisthat
23
24% cat /p/echo_noslashNoticeNoSlashHere
25NoticeNoSlashHere
26
27% cksum /etc/rc
281896381655 10514 /etc/rc
29
30% cat /etc/rc | gzip > /tmp/rc.gz
31
32% cksum /tmp/rc /p/gzcat//tmp/rc.gz
331896381655 10514 /tmp/rc
341896381655 10514 /p/gzcat//tmp/rc.gz
35
36% cat /etc/rc > /p/gzip//tmp/rc.gz.2
37
38% ls -l /tmp/rc.gz*
39-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3751 Jul  6 01:25 /tmp/rc.gz
40-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3751 Jul  6 01:26 /tmp/rc.gz.2
41
42% cat /etc/rc > /p/gzip9//tmp/rc.gz9
43
44% ls -l /tmp/rc.gz9
45-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3748 Jul  6 01:27 /tmp/rc.gz9
46
47% cat /p/gzcat//tmp/rc.gz9 | cksum
481896381655 10514
49
50% cat /p/ftp/ftp.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD/README
51  <contents deleted>
52
53% cat /p/http://www.netbsd.org/index.html
54  <contents deleted>
55
56# And now for some more creative uses...
57% cd /tmp
58# Both formats of FTP commands work:
59% cp /p/ftp/ftp.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/bin.tar.gz .
60
61% cp /p/ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/sbin.tar.gz .
62
63% tar xzf sbin.tar.gz
64
65# Or, we can be fancier.  Tar tries to convert /p/ftp/a:b into a
66# request for file b from host /p/ftp/a, so we need to
67# circumvent that by using cat.
68% cat /p/gzcat//p/ftp/ftp.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/sbin.tar.gz | tar xf -
69
70# Or, we can bzip all of our man pages and still access them
71# without changing the man program:
72% cd /usr/share/man/man8
73
74% cat mount_portal.8 | bzip2 -9 > mount_portal.8.bz2
75
76% rm mount_portal.8
77
78% ln -s /p/bzcat//usr/share/man/man8/mount_portal.8.bz2 mount_portal.8
79
80% man mount_portal
81  <it works!>
82
83% cat /p/nroff//p/bzcat//usr/share/man/man8/mount_portal.bz2
84  <also works.>
85
86# Or, rather than putting //, we can use the last nroff
87# configuration, nroff%, instead:
88% cat /p/nroff%/p/bzcat%/usr/share/man/man8/mount_portal.bz2
89