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.


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