From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
From: ems <oat@iinet.net.au>
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:14:11 +1100
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It still is accessed as a file...

Maybe Plan 9 has surpassed the limitations of English?

-- ems
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:14 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> ems wrote:
> > I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"
>
> I haven't seen that many files I write to that have side effects on
> other files.
>
> /dev/eia0ctl for example.
>
> I'm still not comfortable with that phrasing. It's amazing how it gets
> misinterpreted by Unix and Windows folks ...
>
> ron