From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lyle Bickley To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:29:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.23-0.1-pae; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <9f8d13d5d9d4e5731836b25aed002bf1@mail.nanosouffle.net> <200906280731.26235.lbickley@bickleywest.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906281029.36205.lbickley@bickleywest.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposal*: A Cousin for man(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 107129b8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sunday 28 June 2009, hiro wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Lyle Bickley 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 -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"