From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] New User (Experimentor only, non-programmer) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:00:14 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 602e0f4a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 A note: the Plan 9 philosophy is to subdivide all tasks into namespaces that are part of the file system. The mail system upas, the USB system usbd, the print sytem lp, the FTP system ftpfs, the web site access system webfs - all of them mount information to the file system. In fact, the /proc directory, where your processes are stored, made its way into other operating systems, and makes the who command very short... On Feb 24, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > ftpfs -m /n/yourftp domain.com > > You will be asked for a username and password. > > cd /n/yourftp > > Your files are now there. > > On Feb 24, 2008, at 7:54 AM, philo wrote: > >> >> >> I just installed Plan 9 yesterday on a machine I've setup with >> removable drives. >> My machine is setup simply to experiment with different OS's and >> I've got >> drives >> with several dozen different systems: >> Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, BeOs , Solaris, etc. >> >> Plan 9 is now my latest experiment. >> >> The main thing I wanted to do with Plan 9 was just use it to FTP >> data up to >> my website. >> Though I've got the network configured and can Ping out... >> I was not able to find any FTP. ( I did find "ftpd" though) >> >> If I get that working, about the only other question I have is if >> there is a >> text-based news reader >> available for accessing Usenet. >> >> I read over the Wikipedia info but was not able to ascertain >> anything to >> help me. >> >> Thanks >> >