From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 17:18:05 +0100
From: Boyd Roberts boyd@france3.fr
Subject: [9fans] fprint(int fd, const char* format,...);
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i'm pretty sure that rob's right.  byron and paul wrote the public
domain version of rc back in 1991 and they were both pretty gung ho
about plan 9.  of course, rc first appeared on version 10 unix.