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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 13:32 -0800, David Leimbach wrote:

> I mean sure you could use FTP to transfer files, but the old shell
> based tools are automagically plugged in with network capabilities
> when they deal with a FTP backed namespace right?  So without any
> binary loader capabilities "cp" "mv" and other existing "small
> programs" are now "plugged in".

Right. That plus the fact that the "plugin" is now generally available
over the network makes it much more interesting.

In fact, these current trend towards REST in web services seems
to be a validation of 9P view of the world.

Thanks,
Roman.