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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis