[9fans] 3rd edition documentation

[9fans] 3rd edition documentation

[mike]

what does AT&T have to do with the plan 9 release?

Re: [9fans] 3rd edition documentation

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael Jeffrey wrote:

> the boxed set we will produce will include two manuals
> Vol 1 - the man pages
> Vol 2 - the papers
> together with the CD

How much? When? Thanks.

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[Michael]

Digby,

the boxed set we will produce will include two manuals
Vol 1 - the man pages
Vol 2 - the papers
together with the CD

Michael Jeffrey
----- Original Message -----
From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:28 PM
Subject: [9fans] 3rd edition documentation


> Hi,
>
> I'd like to add my congratuations to the team at Bell Labs.
> The new release sounds great, and the open source release
> extremely generous.
>
> Before I start downloading documentation, I was wondering
> if anyone can tell me if AT&T are planning on publishing
> a new edition of the manual set that was provided with
> the 2nd release? I still find it useful to have a paper
> copy to mull over at times.
>
> Perhaps these are the manuals mentioned as being included
> with the forthcoming boxed distribution from
> Vita Nuova?
>
> In the interim, are there any parts of the old manuals
> that are unchanged and need not be downloaded.
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> --
> Digby R. S. Tarvin
digbyt@acm.org
> http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk

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[forsyth]

>>Don't know - I was just going by the fact that the 2nd release
>>manuals have the AT&T logo on the spine, and were Copyright AT&T.

AT&T split itself into independent bits later, Lucent being one.

>>I am not sure how ownership/responsibility is divided amoungst
>>AT&T, Lucent, Bell Labs, Harcourt Brace, Vita Nuova etc.

Lucent owns Plan 9 and licences it (using the licence you will have
seen on the Bell Labs distribution site).

>>Is it perhaps the case the Harcourt Brace was engaged by AT&T
>>as exclusive packager/distributor for the second release, and
>>Vita Nuova is the first of possibly many non-exclusive
>>packer/distributors of Lucent's release.?

I don't know what the HB arrangement was, but I can say definitively
that we are not `engaged' to do this by Lucent.

>>It isn't obvious to me if Lucent will be printing and selling
>>documentation to resellers and end-users, or if the resellers
>>will be responsible for arranging their own printing.

Vita does its own publishing (we pay someone to do the actual printing
but we prepare the printer-ready files, organise art work, CDs).

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[rob]

Lucent owns Plan 9 (and Bell Labs) since splitting up with AT&T in 1996.

	Is it perhaps the case the Harcourt Brace was engaged by AT&T
	as exclusive packager/distributor for the second release, and
	Vita Nuova is the first of possibly many non-exclusive
	packer/distributors of Lucent's release.?

That is an accurate picture.

-rob

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[Digby]

> what does AT&T have to do with the plan 9 release?

Don't know - I was just going by the fact that the 2nd release
manuals have the AT&T logo on the spine, and were Copyright AT&T.

I am not sure how ownership/responsibility is divided amoungst
AT&T, Lucent, Bell Labs, Harcourt Brace, Vita Nuova etc.

Is it perhaps the case the Harcourt Brace was engaged by AT&T
as exclusive packager/distributor for the second release, and
Vita Nuova is the first of possibly many non-exclusive
packer/distributors of Lucent's release.?

It isn't obvious to me if Lucent will be printing and selling
documentation to resellers and end-users, or if the resellers
will be responsible for arranging their own printing.

Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk

[9fans] 3rd edition documentation

[Digby]

> what does AT&T have to do with the plan 9 release?

Don't know - I was just going by the fact that the 2nd release
manuals have the AT&T logo on the spine, and were Copyright AT&T.

I am not sure how ownership/responsibility is divided amoungst
AT&T, Lucent, Bell Labs, Harcourt Brace, Vita Nuova etc.

Is it perhaps the case the Harcourt Brace was engaged by AT&T
as exclusive packager/distributor for the second release, and
Vita Nuova is the first of possibly many non-exclusive
packer/distributors of Lucent's release.?

It isn't obvious to me if Lucent will be printing and selling
documentation to resellers and end-users, or if the resellers
will be responsible for arranging their own printing.

Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk

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[forsyth]

>>Perhaps these are the manuals mentioned as being included
>>with the forthcoming boxed distribution from
>>Vita Nuova?

you bet.

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[Digby]

Hi,

I'd like to add my congratuations to the team at Bell Labs.
The new release sounds great, and the open source release
extremely generous.

Before I start downloading documentation, I was wondering
if anyone can tell me if AT&T are planning on publishing
a new edition of the manual set that was provided with
the 2nd release? I still find it useful to have a paper
copy to mull over at times.

Perhaps these are the manuals mentioned as being included
with the forthcoming boxed distribution from
Vita Nuova?

In the interim, are there any parts of the old manuals
that are unchanged and need not be downloaded.

Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk

[9fans] 3rd edition documentation

[Digby]

Hi,

I'd like to add my congratuations to the team at Bell Labs.
The new release sounds great, and the open source release
extremely generous.

Before I start downloading documentation, I was wondering
if anyone can tell me if AT&T are planning on publishing
a new edition of the manual set that was provided with
the 2nd release? I still find it useful to have a paper
copy to mull over at times.

Perhaps these are the manuals mentioned as being included
with the forthcoming boxed distribution from
Vita Nuova?

In the interim, are there any parts of the old manuals
that are unchanged and need not be downloaded.

Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk