and there's always nemo's commentary... that probably should become a book :) though it is now outdated (and probably at a lower level than they were looking for): http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~nemo/9.ps.gz (i googled the link, so i guess nobody's going to be mad at me for posting it)... now drifting offtopic: i don't know about KommandoInterpreter, but when i was a kid i thought that command.com was some sort of a game featuring arnold schwarzenegger (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088944) On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Andrew Simmons wrote: > > I don't think there are any books. > > There's an oldish (pre-rio) book in German: > > "Das Netzbetriebssystem Plan 9 - Konzepte und Programmierung" by H.P. > Bischof, G. Imeyer, B. Kühl, A.T. Schreiner , ISBN: 3-446-18881-9 > > which taught me that the German for "shell" is "Kommandointerpreter". >