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Date: Fri,  5 Oct 2007 13:56:02 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 things
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On 10/4/07, Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu> wrote:
>Lots of people seem to like
> getting at their data via an API more rich than what can be reasonably
> offered as a seekable bytestream.
>
> Isn't that a very explicitly un-plan9-like thing to want?

that's not un-plan9-like at all.

> People are used to a big heavy
> library/class thing to call on to do something.
>

is this a good thing or just something we live with?

ron