From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest"
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:58:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130904091058q29414c36gffd5e7cd8aec0759@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3492599e046cef4825229272dd3812f@quanstro.net>
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Thu Apr 9 13:44:50 EDT 2009, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
>> i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to
>> specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to
>> receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to
>> establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf, .tex,
>> .rtf, etc).
>
> or you could refrain from making the web any worse by just
> providing the document in ... oh, what's that archane format ...
> right, html. if i recall correctly, it's the standard for web content.
>
> ☺
>
> by the way, this is an absolute gem from sutoc
>
> "handles are not inherently portable. however, between like
> architechtures and software operating system support versions
> things just might work out.
>
> fills me with optimism.
Almost as cheery as alloca() and gets(), another fine pair of
functions we should all use more often :)
>
> - erik
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 17:17 ron minnich
2009-04-09 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:34 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 17:40 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 17:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:58 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-04-09 17:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 18:06 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-09 21:25 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-09 21:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 21:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 22:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-09 22:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10 12:40 ` John P. Cummings
2009-04-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-10 5:16 ` lucio
2009-04-11 23:34 ` Russ Cox
2009-04-12 2:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-12 4:53 ` lucio
2009-04-14 0:03 ` dave.l
2009-04-09 23:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10 5:05 ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:20 ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-09 19:05 ` maht
2009-04-09 19:16 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 19:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 19:40 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 19:43 ` Mechiel Lukkien
2009-04-10 1:35 ` LiteStar numnums
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