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From: "Benn Newman" <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mm macro documentation
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:41:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36531.66.222.64.178.1168638065.squirrel@66.222.64.178> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50701120829n4adf88b3j8331b47411cef24a@mail.gmail.com>


Joel Salomon said:
> On 1/7/07, Benn Newman <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> I printed out a boot-leg version of one of O'Reilly's books that has mm
>> documenation but it is not complete
>
> Do you mean <http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/>?  That's not
> samizdat; it's been officially released.

No, that is not what I mean. Something along the lines of "UNIX in a
Nutshell."

> Is there any chance of the 10th (or earlier) Edition manual sources
> being made available to be brought up-to-date and added to /sys/doc?

I don't know. The papers have people's names on them, I'm not sure how
they would like us changing things (it's not exactly like source code).
Would it be appropriate, for example, for the community to send patches
for /sys/doc/9.ms?

> --Joel
>
-- 
Benn Newman



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08  4:06 Benn Newman
2007-01-08  5:26 ` Vester Thacker
2007-01-08  8:24 ` Steve Simon
2007-01-09  3:33 ` Benn Newman
2007-01-09  4:17   ` geoff
2007-01-09 21:28     ` [9fans] sources website down? (Was mm macro documentation) Benn Newman
2007-01-09 21:42       ` Steve Simon
2007-01-09 22:03         ` Russ Cox
2007-01-09  3:36 ` [9fans] mm macro documentation Benn Newman
2007-01-12 16:29 ` Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 16:38   ` Russ Cox
2007-01-12 16:52     ` Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 16:58       ` Brantley Coile
2007-01-12 21:41   ` Benn Newman [this message]
     [not found] ` <7871fcf50701120854m324de823n95ad6063c64706b6@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <45a7c087./GnK/XcvjKEA/dVq%gunnarr@acm.org>
2007-01-12 17:12     ` Fwd: Fwd: " Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 10:56 Aharon Robbins
2007-01-12 21:48 ` Benn Newman

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