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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc
Date: Thu,  1 Nov 2007 17:00:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2552D0A5-2008-4E64-BDDA-A62812CA2E33@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940711011347i27feaf1bmf12b6c2358818fd8@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote:

> I certainly like the idea of a good tutorial-style introduction. The
> subject matter seems to lend itself more to the wiki than /sys/doc.
> Regarding your list of suggested topics, Don's right about most of
> that already being in /sys/doc (or the man pages).

/sys/doc doesn't talk much about the system as far as I know - I have  
to look at lookman first. The man pages have several flaws: there are  
too many; some important stuff is hard to find; "man page jumping" is  
a problem.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-01 20:11 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-01 20:23 ` don bailey
2007-11-01 20:47 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-01 21:00   ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2007-11-01 21:22     ` Federico Benavento
2007-11-02 13:10       ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-02 13:34         ` David Leimbach
2007-11-02 13:39           ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 16:44             ` geoff
2007-11-02 18:00               ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 19:34                 ` geoff
2007-11-02 20:57                   ` David Leimbach
2007-11-03  2:44                 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-03  8:49                   ` Sander van Dijk
2007-11-03 15:24                     ` Eldanen
2007-11-03 21:43                       ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-03 23:40                         ` Eldanen
2007-11-06 14:39                         ` [9fans] Font Michaelian Ennis
2007-11-06 14:46                           ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-06 14:50                             ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-07 18:12                               ` Michaelian Ennis
2007-11-06 14:56                           ` Martin Neubauer
2007-11-05 11:59                     ` [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-02 18:09             ` David Leimbach
2007-11-02 18:47         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-02 20:11           ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-02 18:52         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-01 21:27     ` Uriel
2007-11-02  1:44     ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-02  7:53       ` Uriel
2007-11-01 21:24 ` ISHWAR RATTAN
2007-11-02  3:07 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-02  8:19 ` fernanbolando
2007-11-02 10:03   ` roger peppe
2007-11-02 13:07     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-02 12:42   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-02 15:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-11-02 19:12 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-02 19:44   ` Pietro Gagliardi

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