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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:29:41 +0200
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	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:26:26PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
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> For example, the kerTeX installation relies on an ftp client that
> accepts a URL on the command line.

Slight correction: this is not the kerTeX installation, this is sugar
for simplifying installation in the most common cases. The basis does
not request ftp. The "primitives" (R.I.S.K. proper) do not use this.

But I think we mostly agree on the issues.

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