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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc
Date: Thu,  1 Nov 2007 17:00:08 -0400
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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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.