Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

[Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>]

Hi Anthony.

Thanks for the answers.

> > Hi.  Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com
> > reflect the current state of the system?  I'm curious about both the
> > reference> manual and the various files from /sys/doc.
>
> They do not. I've only verified that the most recent changes are not
> in there; I can't say how far back that goes. I'm not sure if there's
> a schedule for regeneration. Stick with the source if you have doubts.

OK.

> Note that while /sys/man is expected to describe the current state of the
> system, that's not really a good assumption for /sys/doc. Some of those
> papers describe aspects of the system that have changes significantly
> since they were written (the paper on 8? being the most obvious example).

Is anyone updating at least the troff versions of the papers? That is,
if I go with the source, will I get something (more) current?

> > Stick with the source if you have doubts.
>
> Actually, that's not even necessary. The online HTML
> version gets the latest changes. You'll only need the
> sources if you want to generate PS/PDF explicitly, say
> for printing.

Well, actually printing is what I had in mind, but maybe I'm being
too much of a luddite.

Has anyone tried producing the doc using groff under Linux, or would
it require a running Plan 9 system to correctly (re)generate everything?

Thanks,

Arnold