Re: [9fans] spreding the word

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:01, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 'Tis a shame there's absolutley no attribution to be found. I wonder
>> who wrote the book? Seems to be quite readable.
>
> pdfinfo sheds some light on the subject:
>
> Title:          P9.pdf
> Author:         Wellhoefer
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> CreationDate:   Mon Aug 21 20:32:06 2006
> ModDate:        Mon Aug 21 20:32:06 2006
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> Pages:          237
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>
> googling "wellhoefer plan 9" found this on wikipedia:
>
> German book about Plan 9: Hans-Peter Bischof, Gunter Imeyer, Bernhard
> Wellhöfer (born as Kühl), Axel-Tobias Schreiner: Das
> Netzbetriebssystem Plan 9. 1999, ISBN 3-446-18881-9. The book is out
> of print, but available for free at the print-on-demand service
> provider Lulu.com.

Yeah, looking at it I was thinking that the only Plan 9 book I know of
in German was co-authored by Axel Schreiner, who teaches at my school
:)

Now if only I could read German...

John Floren