From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4E43DF7F.8050703@0x6a.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:56:15 -0500 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20110810162139.48CF914DBD4@smtp.hushmail.com> <214aedcdaee4b4740271167077cc1660@quintile.net> <20110811101127.52627669@wks-ddc.exosec.local> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e7b71f2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 David Leimbach wrote: > Is it obvious enough from the man pages that this wouldn't be too useful > to have on the Plan 9 wiki? > > I'm a big believer in the wiki, but not when it pushes one to avoid > reading the authoritative documentation of the man pages. > > Dave > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Setting_up_Venti/index.html has the gist of setting up venti by hand. The bits on re-configuring Fossil aren't there (save for the mention of the venti environment variable). In my mind the man pages pick up the slack of the wiki in this case. Also, I personally use the 9fans archive as my own personal manual next to the man pages (and at last resort the wiki). I for some reason always get the impression that the wiki is missing bits... so I use it only has a means of discovering just what man page exactly I should be reading :) -Jack