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From: "Matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] help, i'm in a wet paper bag and I can't get out
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:43:13 +0100
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okay okay :)

project2 will be the Inferno irc client

but when can I look forward to signing it and dropping it on a web page and
using the Limbo plugin for IE ?

that would be pretty useful. Giving clients a url of our IRC server instead
of saying "download an IRC client".

I might get a gold star for that one.

Matt

/me dreams of weaning clients away from html for administrating their sites
/me doesn't want to hear about java.

----- Original Message -----
From: <rog@vitanuova.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] help, i'm in a wet paper bag and I can't get out


> > One of the problems the monolithic perl script had was that to add
> > functionality they had to kill the bot, change the script and then log
in
> > again.
>
> to bang on (so to speak) about my personal favourite hammer, this is
> something that limbo is well suited for, as it provides dynamic loading
> & unloading of modules trivially.
>
> if ((mod := lookupmod(name)) == nil) {
> mod = load IRCbot "/dis/ircbots/" + name;
> if (mod == nil) {
> sys->fprint(stderr, "cannot find module %s: %r\n", name);
> return;
> }
> stashmod(name, mod);
> }
> mod->functionality();
>
>