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From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley@bickleywest.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposal*: A Cousin for man(1)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:31:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906280731.26235.lbickley@bickleywest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a81fe9be0906280439w735ecd47j91284c42966cce4c@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 28 June 2009, yy wrote:
> When I started reading Plan9 documentation some years ago I noticed a
> lack of examples (a simple 9P file server being the most notorious
> one), until nemo's book appeared and I started to really play with the
> system. Then, I realized how naive^Wstupid I had been: Plan9 is *full*
> of examples. The source is there, grep is there (and src too!), what
> else do you need? I don't think any written-on-purpose example can
> explain file servers better than ramfs.c and its friends.
> That said, more and better documentation is always welcomed, of course.

I'm a newbie on Plan9 - and have been reading manuals and following this
list for about a month. I don't think I know about "nemo's book" - where
can I find it? (Is it downloadable or published or both?)

Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-28 10:31 Akshat Kumar
2009-06-28 11:39 ` yy
2009-06-28 14:31   ` Lyle Bickley [this message]
2009-06-28 15:11     ` hiro
2009-06-28 17:29       ` Lyle Bickley
2009-06-28 13:16 ` Ethan Grammatikidis

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