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<span style="font-size: 12pt"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><b>Plan 9 — The Documents (Volume 2)</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Introduction
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 From Bell Labs
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the system; read at least this paper before you install.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">What’s in a name?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The Organization of Networks in Plan 9
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Connecting the pieces. The details in the paper are outdated but the ideas still apply.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Security in Plan 9
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Sean Quinlan
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the security architecture.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Programming
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The starting point for C programming under Plan 9.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Changes to the Programming Environment in the Fourth Release of Plan 9
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the changes to the C library since the Third Release.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">APE — The ANSI/POSIX Environment
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Howard Trickey
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Moving C code between UNIX and Plan 9.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Acid: A Debugger Built From A Language
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview paper about the Acid debugger.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Acid Manual
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The reference manual for the language and its libraries.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Andrew G. Hume and Bob Flandrena
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to Plan 9’s replacement for </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>make</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 Mkfiles
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Bob Flandrena
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The conventions for using </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>mk</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> in Plan 9.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A Manual for the Plan 9 assembler
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Things you’d rather not know.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>User Interfaces
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">8½, the Plan 9 Window System
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to the (previous) window system and its unusual implementation.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Rc — The Plan 9 Shell
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Tom Duff
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to the new shell, complete with examples.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The Text Editor </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>sam</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>Sam</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> is the standard editor on Plan 9.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A system with a more radical approach to programming and editing.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Plumbing and Other Utilities
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt">Inter-process communication that enlivens the interactive user interface.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Implementation
</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Hello World, or Καλημέρα κόσμε, or </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">こんにちは 世界</span><span style="font-size: 10pt">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike and Ken Thompson
</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt">The details about Plan 9’s character set: the Unicode Standard plus an ASCII-compatible encoding.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 C Compilers
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Ken Thompson
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The design and some internals of the compiler suite.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Adding Application Support for a New Architecture in Plan 9
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Bob Flandrena
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The procedures necessary to add a new instruction set to Plan 9’s programming environment.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The Plan 9 File Server
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Ken Thompson
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The design of the central file server and its novel backup system.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Venti: A new approach to archival storage
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Archival block-level storage using secure hashes as block identifiers.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The IL protocol
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A description of the Internet protocol Plan 9 uses for internal communication.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Lexical File Names in Plan 9, or, Getting Dot-Dot Right
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A vexing old problem solved: how to make </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>pwd</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> get the right answer in the face of multiply-bound directories.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-memory Multiprocessor
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, and Gerard Holzmann
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A detailed study of a central issue in the Plan 9 kernel.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Miscellany
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">A Guide to the Lp Printer Spooler
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Paul Glick
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Adminstering the suite of tools to drive PostScript printers.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Troff User’s Manual
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Joseph F. Ossanna and Brian W. Kernighan
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The old warhorse, updated for Unicode characters.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">Using SPIN
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Gerard Holzmann
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to a tool for analyzing parallel and distributed programs.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Installation
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The Various Ports
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<span style="font-size: 10pt">The hardware requirements for the Plan 9 compilers and kernels.
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