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From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:16:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] HELP: recoving important header file rudely clobbered
	by mk
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"Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net> writes:

> is this native plan9, p9p, or 9vx?

I'm running the stock 386 distribution, on a real hard drive on real
hardware.  I figured learning a new OS would be simpler without having
to think about what's virtual versus what's real, versus what's Linux.

> do you definitely have fossil and venti running?

I have no idea.  I just chose the default installation options,
installing from the CD following the install instructions.  As far as I
know, "Venti" is a volcano in Italy.

> a missing archive/main looks like you don't
> have archival dumps enabled in fossil.conf?

Oops, s|archive/main|main/archive|

> perhaps you have snapshots enabled?

I know I have "fossil".  I didn't know "dump" and "snapshots" were two
different things.  Are there any docs that describe these file systems
in language a newbie has a snowball's chance in Inferno of
understanding?  The man pages for Plan 9 file systems all seem rather
opaque... i.e., "cached-worm file system"?

> what happens if you run 9fs snap?

The mount succeeds, but /n/snap is empty.

> Here is an implementation of context grep,
> I think its erik's code but I cannot remember.

LOL.  That's classic.  I will try and decipher it.

(To all of you,) thanks for all the help!