From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sat,  9 Sep 1995 20:29:46 -0400
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: ls .pooter
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>>there's no '-a' flag, it hides the files starting with '.'.  That's
>>a Unixism I've never liked much.  If it bugs you, you could change your
>>ftpfs to do an 'LIST -a'.  I'ld rather someone fixed Unix but what the
>>heck.

i believe it was fixed in the 7th Edition, but the fix was
lost by one group and not taken up by the other.
(as usual, cold comfort!)

>>>I also find that the editing capabilities of the windows in
>>>8 1/2 doesn't work over telnet connections. Strange things
>>>happen; sometimes I don't seem to get out of the edit mode,


you could try using sam -r to the unix machine: you'd need to put
a copy of sam (but not samterm) on the remote machine.
if you've got the CDROM, see /sys/src/cmd/unix/sam; if not,
a separate sam distribution is available for anonymous ftp.