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Date: Tue,  7 Jul 2009 12:46:31 -0400
From: Kris Maglione <maglione.k@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p implemention using print() like formats
	for	marshaling
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>I am interested in a 9p implementation which used print()-like
>format strings for packet marshaling. This was pre-9p2k and I
>even have a vague memory that it was a student project, mentored by Rob,
>though I may have made that up.
>
>I found this code on the net a long time ago but I ahve lost the link;
>does this description ring any bells with anyone?

Someone wrote a patch for libixp some years ago. The result was
public, but not exceptionally nice, as I recall. That said, I
suspect that I could write a nicer one in an hour or so, but I'm
not really sure it's the best approach.

--
Kris Maglione

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple,
and wrong.
	--H. L. Mencken