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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> 
>

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