On 30 Apr 2010, at 09:23, ruel hernandez wrote:
Hi, my name is ruel hernandez, a contract worker here in saudi
arabia as an electrician.
i really wanted to know
how computers and operating systems are working, at first i tried
linux but along the way
i found plan9 sometime in sept. 2009. i downloaded the sept iso and
tried it live, at work
since then i.ve been longing to install it to my own computer. last
march i got my pentium
4 (repaired), 2 ghz. 256 ram, no harddisk. installed plan9 using 1gb
compact flash drive in
a compactflash adapter board. and well, i can say i,m happy using
plan9, using rio is
better, acme, although i've not learned all yet i'm already using it
in editing, browsing the
files. oh, by the way you have a slow learner here, for more than 1
week now i.ve been
trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. any
comment here would be
great, cause i don't have internet at home, i just save them from
work then read it at
home. here is the tries which i have done;
% webfs
% abaco 'file://usr/glenda/exampledothtml
in abaco page, it says
'file://usr/glenda/exampledothtml: 'mnt/web/0/body' unsupported url
type
% abaco example.html
"example.html: relative url given without base"
i tried also plumb but it is only showing the source in acme
i know i needed to read more 2 to 3hours aday is not enough but i
will,
i want to learn more, i just hope i am not disturbing your advanced
issues here
in 9fans but i,m already a fan of yours
thanks for creating a nice operating system.
Hi and welcome! Good to hear of another installation. I'm sorry I
can't offer help with reading html other than what lucio said about
using htmlfmt instead. I remember when a lot of browsers on Linux were
almost this annoying about reading local files. I often wish for HTML
rendering as a separate component from the entire network side of
things, but I don't know what would happen about local pages with
external links. Perhaps all we really need is for Abaco to understand
that things given on the command line can't possibly be relative
links. *pokes fgb* ;)
Hmm... I'm starting to think most of what I dislike in Plan 9 is due
to dropped metadata, in this case Abaco discarding the source of a url
before parsing it.
--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
