From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
To: chris@blackwidowguitars.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bind: exec header invalid
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Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2004 11:45:38 -0500
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if bind doesn't work in plan9, you're pretty much screwed.

a reinstall couldn't hurt, but I'm not sure that it'll help either.

just for curiosity, what's in that file?  can you cat it?