From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon,  5 Jul 1993 23:23:11 -0400
From: Gary Capell gary@cs.su.OZ.AU
Subject: porting unix progs to plan9
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1.  I'm afraid of losing the nice feel of a small number of good tools if
*nix progs are ported just for the purpose of having familiar old
faithfuls.

2.  For those areas where there IS a definite hole (e.g.  news reader),
writing new applications seems a much better idea, to take advantage of
the nicer programming environment.  For example I've put together the
skeleton of a calendar management file system, and dhog here is working
on a news reading file system, which will hopefully fit in nicely with
other plan 9 tools, especially help(1).

P.S.  Help(1) is way cool.  Try it for an hour and you won't go back.  And
I hear rumours of a successor called acme which should be even better.