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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port rio not serving any fs?
Date: Thu,  7 Feb 2008 10:21:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <223eda5c76bcd5b7078fa1f4888df472@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180802070656g30788eb1n61c2a569adb69671@mail.gmail.com>

> p9p rio doesn't use the Plan 9 file model and is not based on file
> descriptors. it was written at a much earlier age and is a straight
> X11 program that emulates the rio look and feel. it used to be called
> '9wm'.

in fact, 9wm is so old that it emulates 8½ back when ptys were really
non-standard.

; sed 10q<README
                        9wm Version 1.1
                   Copyright 1994 David Hogan.

What is 9wm?
============

9wm is an X window manager which attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window
manager 8-1/2 as far as possible within the constraints imposed by X.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 14:52 Lluís Batlle
2008-02-07 14:56 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-07 15:21   ` erik quanstrom [this message]

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