From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon,  5 Jul 1993 11:43:14 -0400
From: Roger Peppe rog@ohm.york.ac.uk
Subject: Ported U*ix programs to Plan 9?
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> Er, rather than porting existing stuff (GNU, etc) shouldn't
> you be writing NEW programs with the plan9 model?

sometimes it's non-trivial to re-invent _every_ wheel
before using it, however nice it might be... :-)

IMHO, one of the nice things about plan 9 is how easily
most `naive' unix programs port to it.

  rog.