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From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fyi: plan9 book!
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2000 13:32:39 +0100
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>>A well bound printed version of the source good would be good plus the man
>>pages printed out

>>any news on the packaged plan9 Vita Nuova are canvassing interest for on
>>their site?

it is a box with a CD and a  programmer's manual in two bound volumes:
manual pages (688 pages) and papers (416).  the content corresponds to the last
update from the bell labs site.

the CD includes the installation material (so that the normal
installation software can find it to install it), but it's also unpacked
so that you can read it directly.

>>what will be in it apart from the plan9 download?

we aren't keen to see things split off into separate `versions' as
happened with Linux (to some extent) or xBSD (to a greater extent).
bug fixes and generally useful additions that we make will be made available on
our web or ftp site or simply shipped back to 9trouble.

thus plan 9 on the CD is the same as the one available for ftp (after updates).
we're including tex.9gz, however, and several other things in a contrib
directory in wrap format.  that includes a Plan 9 Inferno
binary distribution (means no source for emu, dis or os, 
but Limbo source is included, including the source for Charon).