Hi Anthony. Thanks for the answers.
> > Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com > > reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the > > reference> manual and the various files from /sys/doc. > > They do not. I've only verified that the most recent changes are not > in there; I can't say how far back that goes. I'm not sure if there's > a schedule for regeneration. Stick with the source if you have doubts. OK. > Note that while /sys/man is expected to describe the current state of the > system, that's not really a good assumption for /sys/doc. Some of those > papers describe aspects of the system that have changes significantly > since they were written (the paper on 8? being the most obvious example). Is anyone updating at least the troff versions of the papers? That is, if I go with the source, will I get something (more) current? > > Stick with the source if you have doubts. > > Actually, that's not even necessary. The online HTML > version gets the latest changes. You'll only need the > sources if you want to generate PS/PDF explicitly, say > for printing. Well, actually printing is what I had in mind, but maybe I'm being too much of a luddite. Has anyone tried producing the doc using groff under Linux, or would it require a running Plan 9 system to correctly (re)generate everything? Thanks, Arnold
