From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <486A23B3.5050909@coraid.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:31:47 -0400 From: Brantley Coile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <485fd60af09857cd96375304c1183cd3@coraid.com> <5d375e920806301825l65cb8122v30022d5f3726b128@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d375e920806301825l65cb8122v30022d5f3726b128@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 newbie guide Topicbox-Message-UUID: d274777e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Michael is a very smart man with a great sense of language, sophisticated knowledge of computer science, but he was totally ignorant of Plan 9. That fact allowed him to record what he was learning. As time went by he was quickly loosing a sense of what he needed to know, becoming instead more knowledgeable of Plan 9. You and I can't expand his paper. We know too much. We should let Michael own the paper. Uriel wrote: > There have been similar efforts in the past, but this one is *really* > nice. Concise, clear and covers basic stuff but fast enough. > > Do you have the troff source available? That would make it easier for > people to expand it further. Also I would be happy to host an html > version at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ if that is OK with you. > > Thanks, peace and best wishes > > uriel > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:46 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> this guide was writen at coraid by michael covington. >> the document proclaims itself to be: >> >> This is a quick-start guide to the user interface of the >> Plan 9 operating system based on my own experiences getting >> started at Coraid. >> [...] >> This is not a technical guide to Plan 9. This is only a "guide >> for the perplexed" for those who are using Plan 9 for the first time. >> >> a temporary home for this document is here: >> >> http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf >> >> - erik >> >> >> >