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Date: Fri,  2 Nov 2007 15:39:24 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc
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Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> I'm not a big fan of having to type "man -t 2 xxx | page" about 100 times
> a day to figure out something,

So make a shell function or command script that lets you type
"m xxx" instead.

> and there are things that the man pages don't cover in a clear way,
> so I think a tutorial should be put in.

There are "user guide" papers describing various subsystems, etc.
and at least one good, comprehensive tutorial that I know of:

http://www.lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf

Also check out:
http://www.magma.com.ni/moin/Plan9Tutorial