From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50711011422g67c1de34g20b6fe8bee4fc6d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:22:22 -0300 From: "Federico Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc In-Reply-To: <2552D0A5-2008-4E64-BDDA-A62812CA2E33@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <02597431-3833-4DDD-8720-E0B2761DBE88@mac.com> <509071940711011347i27feaf1bmf12b6c2358818fd8@mail.gmail.com> <2552D0A5-2008-4E64-BDDA-A62812CA2E33@mac.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4d4bee8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 did you read nemo's intro? http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf On 11/1/07, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > 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. > -- Federico G. Benavento