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<p>This is how to use your Tahoe node. First, you have to run your own
local Tahoe node, as described in <a
href="running.html">running.html</a>.</p>
<h1>The WUI</h1>
<p>Point your web browser to <a
href="http://127.0.0.1:3456">http://127.0.0.1:3456</a> -- which is the URL
of the gateway running on your own local computer -- to use your newly
created node.</p>
<p>Create a new directory (with the button labelled "create a directory").
Your web browser will load the new directory. Now if you want to be able
to come back to this directory later, you have to bookmark it, or otherwise
save a copy of the URL. If you lose URL to this directory, then you can never
again come back to this directory.</p>
<p>You can do more or less everything you want to do with a decentralized
filesystem through the WUI.</p>
<p>P.S. "WUI" is pronounced "wooey".</p>
<h1>The CLI</h1>
<p>Prefer the command-line? Run "<cite>tahoe --help</cite>" (the same
command-line tool that is used to start and stop nodes serves to navigate
and use the decentralized filesystem). To get started, create a new
directory and mark it as the 'tahoe:' alias by running "<cite>tahoe
add-alias tahoe `tahoe mkdir`</cite>". Once you've done that, you can do
"<cite>tahoe ls tahoe:</cite>" and "<cite>tahoe cp LOCALFILE
tahoe:foo.txt</cite>" to work with your filesystem. The Tahoe CLI uses the
same syntax as the well-known scp and rsync tools. See <a
href="frontends/CLI.txt">CLI.txt</a> for more details.</p>
<p>As with the WUI (and with all current interfaces to Tahoe), you are
responsible for remembering directory capabilities yourself. If you create
a new directory and lose the capability to it, then you cannot access that
directory ever again.</p>
<p>P.S. "CLI" is pronounced "clee".</p>
<h1>The FUSE Extension</h1>
<p>You can plug Tahoe into your computer's local filesystem using the FUSE
extension, found in the <cite>contrib</cite> directory. Warning: unlike
most of Tahoe, and unlike the rest of the user interfaces described on this
page, the FUSE plugin doesn't have extensive unit tests that are
automatically run on every check-in of the source. Therefore, we can't be
sure how complete and reliable it is.</p>
<p>P.S. "FUSE" rhymes with "muse".</p>
<h1>The WAPI</h1>
<p>Want to program your Tahoe node to do your bidding? Easy! See <a
href="frontends/webapi.txt">webapi.txt</a>.</p>
<p>P.S. "WAPI" is pronounced "wappy".</p>
<h2>Socialize</h2>
<p>You can chat with other users of and hackers of this software at <a
href="http://allmydata.org/">http://allmydata.org</a>.</p>
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