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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:26:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user
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> I tried webfs and got an error message, so I ran webcookies, and then I was
> able to run webfs without an error message. Then I was able to run abaco.
> Now I need to learn how to use it. I thought maybe I could just type in a
> URL and 2-click "Get," but nothing happened.
>

You execute "New", then type the URL INCLUDING http:// in the blank
tag that comes up (below the "Del Snarf Get" commands) and either hit
enter or execute "Get".


> I'll need to learn how to access host and network resources in QEMU before
> I'll be able to mount my fat partition.

Here's a different idea: set up QEMU as a standalone CPU server (per the
instructions on the wiki) and use drawterm to connect. You can then access
host files via drawterm; they'll be in /mnt/term


> I decided not to add the network and web commands to my profile, because I'm
> not sure I'll be wanting to use them every time, while I'm learning to use
> QEMU and Plan 9. I put the network commands in a file. Now I need to learn
> how to write an executable script. For now I cat the file, then I select it
> and send it. For the Web, I'll just type webfs when I need it.

How to write an executable script? Don't you use Unix? It's the same:
1. Put #!/bin/rc at the top of your file
2. chmod +x file

You could have easily looked at something like /rc/bin/sig or whatever to
figure out the same stuff, but I guess it continues to be easier to post on
9fans than to think.


John