From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60607141044w3769a1e0l533e05196ec7054c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:44:25 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] molesting the acme filesystem In-Reply-To: <44B7D667.40804@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4f99d25e2af2ef50218a5846cfff0f7f@quanstro.net> <20060714104547.B1785@orthanc.ca> <44B7D4B5.3070808@lanl.gov> <3e1162e60607141036h1e6f3455n77cb773cb981f333@mail.gmail.com> <44B7D667.40804@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7f95a444-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/14/06, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > David Leimbach wrote: > > some of them are clearly inserting newlines, like event and they > > require one as well to be a completed "event". > > maybe I misunderstood if you're just talking acme. > > But for the system as a whole, there are mnay places where a gratuitious > \n would add a lot of mess. > > > ron > Oh I'm not saying I disagree with you :-). I'm just saying that things aren't necessarily consistent or always very self similar. The interface is, I mean, it's all files, and there's some definite beauty there. Dave