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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Wouldn't plumbing be better for this sort of thing?
>

yeah, good idea, you could prepend calculations with a string. But
more important is that your calculator needs to have a channel that is
global and available to all, which is not a common attribute of
graphical desktop calculators ... once that is there, plumbing can use
it.

ron