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 10:29:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906281029.36205.lbickley@bickleywest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4d8fa40906280811i144c20e5v31cd8099027c4c07@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday 28 June 2009, hiro wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Lyle Bickley<lbickley@bickleywest.com> wrote:
> > 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?)
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A9fans.net+%22nemo%27s+book%22
Thanks for the reply. I had already downloaded that document - I just didn't know it was
called "nero's book" ;-)
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-28 17:29 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
2009-06-28 15:11 ` hiro
2009-06-28 17:29 ` Lyle Bickley [this message]
2009-06-28 13:16 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
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