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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ they expect the
environment variable
to contain the name of the root of the tree.
See
.IR install (8)
.IR install (1)
for details about installation.
.PP
Many of the familiar Unix commands,
@ -127,6 +127,15 @@ The
.IR 9p (1)
client can be used in shell scripts or by hand to carry out
simple interactions with servers.
.SS External databases
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.
See
.B $PLAN9/dict/README
and
.BR $PLAN9/sky/README .
.SS Programming
The shell scripts
.I 9c
@ -187,15 +196,6 @@ can be relied upon to produce reasonable stack traces
cannot)
and dump data structures,
but that it is the extent to which they have been developed and exercised.
.SS External databases
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.
See
.B $PLAN9/dict/README
and
.BR $PLAN9/sky/README .
.SS Porting programs
The vast majority of the familiar Plan 9 programs
have been ported, including the Unicode-aware
@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ and the implementation of
.IR getcallerpc (3),
but these are usually simple and are not on the critical
path for getting the system up and running.
.SS SEE ALSO
The system's documentation is these manual pages.
.SH SEE ALSO
The rest of this manual describes Plan 9 from User Space.
Many of the man pages have been brought from Plan 9,
but they have been updated, and others have been written from scratch.
.PP
@ -276,19 +276,24 @@ directly, as in
The manual sections follow the Unix numbering conventions,
not the Plan 9 ones.
.PP
Section (1) describes general publicly accessible commands.
.HR ../man1 "Section (1)
describes general publicly accessible commands.
.PP
Section (3) describes C library functions.
.HR ../man3 "Section (3)
describes C library functions.
.PP
Section (4) describes user-level file servers.
.HR ../man4 "Section (4)
describes user-level file servers.
.PP
Section (7) describes file formats and protocols.
.HR ../man7 "Section (7)
describes file formats and protocols.
(On Unix, section (5) is technically for file formats but
seems now to be used for describing specific files.)
.\" .PP
.\" Section (8) describes commands used for system administration.
.PP
Section (8) describes commands used for system administration.
.PP
Section (9p) describes the Plan 9 file protocol 9P.
.HR ../man9 "Section (9p)
describes the Plan 9 file protocol 9P.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
In Plan 9, a program's exit status is an arbitrary text string,
while on Unix it is an integer.