From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7359f049050328150067256573@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:00:19 +1100 From: Rob Pike To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] increase visibility of "Help" paper? In-Reply-To: <5bf5785dfb50631054e5803933554a2d@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <25228.1112046725@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> <5bf5785dfb50631054e5803933554a2d@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2dcba628-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 README was the one by Brian, right? He hardly used the system and he writes a lot of off-the-mark stuff. I deleted it from the distribution because I thought it was more confusing than useful, trying to make Plan 9 into Unix rather than explaining why it was different. -rob On Mar 29, 2005 9:53 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > > 2. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw the function of the > > ESCAPE key documented either of those papers. I believe I stumbled > > across it in the archives by accident: > > http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2001-May/011280.html > > ESC is documented in the man page for rio. > > that said, > > > 3. To me, personally, the "Help" paper is just "more fun" than the > > Acme paper. What do you think? > > i agree. "descent into limbo" and the original README.ms for Plan 9 > are (were) useful for beginners when they were recent. i have > promised to help bring README.ms up to date. that'll happen sooner > rather than later. > >