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From: dmr@pla... dmr@pla...
Subject: Limbo manual available
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 03:41:03 -0400

[Previous msg was evidently chopped twixt here and there, most
likely here; sorry]

For language comparison fans, the reference manual for the
Limbo programming language, and a tutorial that shows off
various facilities of the Inferno operating system,
are available underneath

	http://inferno.bell-labs.com/inferno/index.html

It's worth retrieving the Postscript version
if you're interested, since some of the formatting
gets lost in the HTML rendition.  To use FTP, connect
to inferno.bell-labs.com; inferno/limbo.ps is the manual.

	Dennis Ritchie
----
	  ... So my master said,

	"Do you, O Malacoda, think I could get
	Through all your defenses safely as this
	Except by Heaven's will and happy fate?

	Now let us pass--for Heaven also decrees
	That I should show another this savage road."
	The demon's pride fell so much he let loose

	His hook....

		Inferno of Dante, Canto XXI