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diff --git a/man/man1/0intro.1 b/man/man1/0intro.1 index 8c520d9d..ad851a5f 100644 --- a/man/man1/0intro.1 +++ b/man/man1/0intro.1 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ conventionally When programs need to access files in the tree, they expect the .B $PLAN9 -environment variable +environment variable to contain the name of the root of the tree. See .MR install (1) @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ expect Plan 9 regular expressions (see .MR regexp (7) ), which are closest to what Unix calls extended regular expressions. -Because of these differences, it is not recommended to put +Because of these differences, it is not recommended to put .B $PLAN9/bin before the usual system .B bin @@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ The argument is one of \fL'\fIxmin ymin xmax ymax\fL'\fR, \fRor \fIxmin\fL,\fIymin\fL,\fIxmax\fL,\fIymax\fR. +See +.MR devdraw (1) +and +.MR keyboard (7) +for details about typing and clicking in graphical applications. .PP The .MR plumber (4) @@ -135,7 +140,7 @@ is an experimental client for acme. Some programs rely on large databases that would be cumbersome to include in every release. Scripts are provided that download these databases separately. -These databases can be downloaded separately. +These databases can be downloaded separately. See .B $PLAN9/dict/README and @@ -148,7 +153,7 @@ and (see .MR 9c (1) ) provide a simple interface to the underlying system compiler and linker, -similar to the +similar to the .I 2c and .I 2l @@ -201,7 +206,7 @@ cannot) and dump data structures, but that it is the extent to which they have been developed and exercised. .SS Porting programs -The vast majority of the familiar Plan 9 programs +The vast majority of the familiar Plan 9 programs have been ported, including the Unicode-aware .MR troff (1) . .PP @@ -222,7 +227,7 @@ is in progress; see .SS Porting to new systems Porting the tree to new operating systems or architectures should be straightforward, as system-specific code has been -kept to a minimum. +kept to a minimum. The largest pieces of system-specific code are .BR <u.h> , which must include the right system files and @@ -231,7 +236,7 @@ and .IR libthread , which must implement spin locks, operating system thread creation, and context switching routines. -Portable implementations of these using +Portable implementations of these using .B <pthread.h> and .B <ucontext.h> @@ -259,7 +264,7 @@ so that the Unix utility can handle it. Some systems, for example Debian Linux, deduce the man page locations from the search path, so that -adding +adding .B $PLAN9/bin to your path is sufficient to cause .B $PLAN9/man |