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From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] File/cpu service provider
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:10:24 +0100
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>> ... config managers like GNU Autoconf.

it's partly because Plan 9 does not need and never ought to need `Autoconf'
that it is so much easier to program, let alone  `admin' than current UNIX derivatives/variants/clones.
<diatribe about autoconf, configure, and #ifdef removed>