Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-06 Thread erik quanstrom
> Sorry, for the long delay to reply and thanks for all the > replies. htmlfmt is good enough for now, > while i'm still trying to learn the system. > I just hope that i'm not causing disturbance here cause i'm really hooked to > plan9 now, Today i'm installing it to

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-06 Thread ruel hernandez
Sorry, for the long delay to reply and thanks for all the replies. htmlfmt is good enough for now, while i'm still trying to learn the system. I just hope that i'm not causing disturbance here cause i'm really hooked to plan9 now, Today i'm installing it to our compu

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 May 2010, at 13:53, erik quanstrom wrote: cd /sys/man; mk indices ty but mk fails with: mkindex: '/bin/mkindex' file does not exist is your path not (. /bin)? It was not. Fixed now. A long time since I took . out of path, I'd quite forgotten. - erik -- Simplicity does not pr

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, erik quanstrom > wrote: > > you have something in your path by the > > name of sed, sort, echo, sed which are > > executable but not $objtype binaries. > > > $path is . /bin > where . is /sys/man > the are no sed, sort, or echo in . > the ones residing in /bin

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > you have something in your path by the > name of sed, sort, echo, sed which are > executable but not $objtype binaries. $path is . /bin where . is /sys/man the are no sed, sort, or echo in . the ones residing in /bin are indeed $objtype bin

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Simon
> > cd /sys/man; mk indices > > ty but mk fails with: > mkindex: '/bin/mkindex' file does not exist Works here on native plan9. perhaps you are using 9vx? This installs only a subset of the plan9 distribution initially. -Steve

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> > cd /sys/man; mk indices > > ty but mk fails with: > mkindex: '/bin/mkindex' file does not exist is your path not (. /bin)? - erik

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 3 May 2010, at 20:13, erik quanstrom wrote: trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. I use htmlfmt(1), you can do the same until somebody explains how to use abaco(1) instead. Neither will do tables. false. abaco does tables correctly. see readweb(1) for details o

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread erik quanstrom
you have something in your path by the name of sed, sort, echo, sed which are executable but not $objtype binaries. - erik

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:13 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > the manual indicies are out-of-date on sources. > > cd /sys/man; mk indices > > - erik The following problem occurs: cpu% mk indices for (i in [0-8]){ /sys/lib/man/secindex $i > $i/INDEX /sys/lib/man/mkhtmlindex $i > $i/IND

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> >>> trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. > >> > >> I use htmlfmt(1), you can do the same until somebody explains how to > >> use abaco(1) instead. Neither will do tables. > > > > false. abaco does tables correctly. see readweb(1) for > > details on how to start abaco. >

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> 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* ;) html rendering is seperate. that's why you need to have webf

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 3 May 2010, at 13:13, Akshat Kumar wrote: readweb does not need a man page. The source, /rc/bin/readweb itself is a guide to using abaco. Moreover, just run readweb and enjoy. Strange enough that a command without a man page was cited in a way used for man page references, but I thoug

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
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

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread Akshat Kumar
readweb does not need a man page. The source, /rc/bin/readweb itself is a guide to using abaco. Moreover, just run readweb and enjoy. Best, ak P.S.: You might want to start webfs as a service and then mount it to /mnt/web, instead of starting a new webfs each session, as readweb does. This al

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-05-03 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 30 Apr 2010, at 12:41, erik quanstrom wrote: trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. I use htmlfmt(1), you can do the same until somebody explains how to use abaco(1) instead. Neither will do tables. false. abaco does tables correctly. see readweb(1) for details on

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-04-30 Thread lucio
> false. abaco does tables correctly. see readweb(1) for > details on how to start abaco. Oh, this crept in while I wasn't watching (I hope!). My apologies to fgb. ++L

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-04-30 Thread erik quanstrom
> > trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. > > I use htmlfmt(1), you can do the same until somebody explains how to > use abaco(1) instead. Neither will do tables. false. abaco does tables correctly. see readweb(1) for details on how to start abaco. - erik

Re: [9fans] New user

2010-04-30 Thread lucio
> trying to figure out how to view html pages but no sucess. I use htmlfmt(1), you can do the same until somebody explains how to use abaco(1) instead. Neither will do tables. ++L

[9fans] New user

2010-04-30 Thread ruel hernandez
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

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-22 Thread Pavel Klinkovsky
> If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck. I tried Erik's 9atom ISO. I was able to reach the menu - install, start etc. - but another install progress failed... init: starting /bin/rc i8259enable: irq 11 shared but not level intrenable: couldn't enable irq 11, tbdf 0xC00FA00 for sdD

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Iruata Souza
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom > wrote: >> >> > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were >> > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the >> > FAT file (I'm strictly an on

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:13 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > If you try Erik's 9atom ISO, you may have better luck. It'd be nice if the > 9load changes he made were already rolled up into the standard ISO, but I > guess they haven't made it yet? Steve, Dave's suggestion could work. Check the 9fans arc

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were > > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the > > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have > > VMWare and I'd be curi

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> I did look around and the only possible problems I could find were > that maybe since I don't have Windows it was trying to look for the > FAT file (I'm strictly an only Linux user) in which case I do not have > VMWare and I'd be curious if there is a non-DOS ISO file that could > run on a Linux

Re: [9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Iruata Souza
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Steve wrote: > I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of > a solution. > > Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available > on Plan 9's installation page here: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/inde

[9fans] New User with Problems

2010-02-08 Thread Steve
I've been scouring the Interwebs and haven't been able to find much of a solution. Yesterday I decided to give P9 a try and burned the ISO file available on Plan 9's installation page here: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/index.html It was the direct link to the CD image so none of

Re: [9fans] New user

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