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Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/smtp 
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed,  1 Nov 2000 17:23:38 -0500
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> sam should have a named pipe for commands

The code is adaptable, because there are a few diehards here that don't
use plumbing. B works for them since sam checks if plumbing is
available and if not, turns on the pipe stuff.  That should be trivial
to make work on Unix, since it always did.

On Boyd's point, plumbing is of course the evolution of B.

-rob