From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:24:28 -0400 From: ISHWAR RATTAN To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc In-Reply-To: <02597431-3833-4DDD-8720-E0B2761DBE88@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <02597431-3833-4DDD-8720-E0B2761DBE88@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4db2b8e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Sounds good to me. -ishwar On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Hello. I've been trying out programming Plan 9 since I got the system up and > I think I'm getting the hang of learning from man pages. I'm not a big fan of > having to type "man -t 2 xxx | page" about 100 times a day to figure out > something, and there are things that the man pages don't cover in a clear > way, so I think a tutorial should be put in. I already started writing one, > and I think it would benefit from being in /sys/doc. It will cover: > - basics > - compiler usage > - file access > - threads > - graphics and controls > - hopefully networking > - debugging > within about 15-30 pages. Anyone like this idea? - Pietro >