[Coco] nitrOS-9 documentation

[Frank Pittel]

I do want to make it clear that my comments about the available
documentation for nitros is not intended as criticism. Rather it's
 a plea for help in learning how to use and maintain the installation
I have. The documentation that is available at the nitros9 website
is helpfull for what it is but as you point out there is a lot missing.
The documentation that comes with cloud9 products is well done but seems
to be targeted to people that have a strong understanding of nitros.

A command reference and something to help with using edit (could it be
that edit is the most arcane and difficult to use editor ever written?)
 is something that is greatly needed. 

As you point out this forum is a great resouce and in the last few days
I've gotten a lot of help from the people here.

Frank


On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:03:27AM -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> The only documentation for NitrOS-9 consists of the two links on the  
> www.nitros9.org website "Getting Started with NitrOS-9" and "The  
> NitrOS-9 Level 2 Windowing System", as well as the original Tandy  
> OS-9 Level I and Level II Manuals.    The former should be read by  
> anyone new to NitrOS-9.
> 
> I've been having the "NitrOS-9 Technical Reference" in a partial  
> state for some time now, but commitments have prevented me from  
> continuing work on it.  That particular manual probably wouldn't have  
> helped you in your situation anyway though.  It also happens to be  
> one of the largest in the series.
> 
> I've found that between the existing NitrOS-9 documentation and the  
> Cloud-9 documentation that comes with our products, most issues can  
> be solved.  Granted, there are some that aren't, and solving them  
> must come through perseverance and experience.  And of course, forums  
> like this are helpful too.
> 
> What is needed is a suite of comprehensive manuals that totally  
> replace the existing OS-9 documentation in terms of both breadth and  
> depth.  I've worked on that for some time, and the result so far is  
> the two manuals already up on the www.nitros9.org website.  When the  
> rest will be done, I truly cannot say.
> 
> Boisy
> 
> On Jul 4, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> >The "fun" of the last few days have made me realize that the  
> >documentation
> >of nitros-9 I have is sorely lacking. The little I have is what's  
> >available
> >on www.nitros9.org and the books for os-9. The two were of little  
> >use over
> >the last couple of days.
> >
> >Does anyone know of a source of documentation for nitros-9?
> >
> >
> >Frank
> >
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