From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:35:42 -0600 From: philo To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] New User (Experimentor only, non-programmer) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4977_20565631.1203863742792" References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 60402c5c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_4977_20565631.1203863742792 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:57 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. Other than the fact that I forgot to bind my DNS the first time I tried it... worked just fine! I appreciate the help and should be OK to experiment on my own for a while. Thank you very much for taking the time to kelp a newbie!!! > > > 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 > > > > -- www.plazaearth.com/philo ------=_Part_4977_20565631.1203863742792 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
ftpfs -m /n/yourftp domain.com

You will be asked for a username and password.

cd /n/yourftp

Your files are now there.


Other than the fact that I forgot to bind my DNS the first time I tried it...
worked just fine!


I appreciate the help and should be OK to experiment on my own for a while.

Thank you very much for taking the time to kelp a newbie!!!


 


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
>




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