MGPNET(1)

💅 MGPNET — the MagicPoint Netserver, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is mgpnet(1) from the General Commands Manual section, and it is literally the glow-up your MagicPoint presentation deserves. it's a tiny http server that beams your slides to everyone's laptop. iconic behavior. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mgpnet</purl> — MagicPoint Netserver (it provides your MagicPoint presentation over the net, no cap)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mgpnet [arguments to mgp]

like, you just hand it the same args you'd hand mgp. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so mgpnet is a small http server that you run on the presenter's notebook computer. its whole job? letting the audience read the MagicPoint presentation foils on their notebook computers, over the net. group project but make it screens. 😌

when a presenter does a presentation, she should invoke mgpnet instead of mgp, with the same argument. that's it, that's the swap.

here's what goes down: mgpnet becomes an http server running on tcp port 9999 (by default), and it invokes mgp as a child process. then, by accessing the URL

http://hostname:9999/

the audience will be able to read the MagicPoint window currently displayed on the presenter's notebook. everybody sees the same slide at the same time. main character energy for the presenter, zero effort for the audience. 👑

and the webpage that mgpnet serves up? it's designed in "client pull" manner — meaning the audience's notebook will reload the page, several times a minute. it just keeps refreshing itself. self-sufficient queen. ✨

if no option is specified, mgpnet will print the URL to be accessed by the audience to the standard output. super useful for indicating the URL to be accessed on the presentation, like:

%filter "mgpnet"
%endfilter

put that in your presentation and the URL just shows up on the slide. chef's kiss. 💋

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🙈 TODO 🙈

be network conscious. the current implementation is too naive about CPU/network usage. the presenter's notebook may be overloaded if there's too many audiences.

fr fr, don't invite the whole lecture hall and expect your poor laptop to survive. it's giving stress. 💀

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• mgp(1)
• xwintoppm(1)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

mgpnet was created by Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, on the day before the newyear's eve, 1997. a legend. absolute icon. we stan. 🎀

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that's the whole page bestie!! this version is from the Debian distribution, dated December 1997, and it's the MGPNET(1) page in all its glory. go forth and present. 💅✨🦋