[9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread Jim
I only use computers at home, mostly for developing friendships on the Internet, and helping family members with their use of the Internet, multimedia and home office applications. I also use the home office and multimedia applications a little bit myself. We all use Windows, but I've been trying

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
> It would be nice if someone could point me to some step-by-step > instructions for Plan 9 dummies, I don't think such a thing currently exists, but if you keep notes as you go along, you could provide the welcome service of writing one... But there are some general direction to point you in for

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Oops: sent too early... Here's the rest > It would be nice if someone could point me to some step-by-step > instructions for Plan 9 dummies, I don't think such a thing currently exists, but if you keep notes as you go along, you could provide the welcome service of writing one... But there are

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Simon
> There's aquarela which is a CIFS server, but I'm not sure > about client. I seem to remember it being worked on at > one point, but I'm not sure if it was ever completed. cifs(1) (cifs client) is alive and well at contrib/install steve/cifs I use it every day at work, its only (known) limitati

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
>> There's aquarela which is a CIFS server, but I'm not sure >> about client. I seem to remember it being worked on at >> one point, but I'm not sure if it was ever completed. > > cifs(1) (cifs client) is alive and well at contrib/install steve/cifs I happily stand corrected. BLS