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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] grep  on news (usenet)?
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Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when thinking about what I read in descriptions about
> Plan9, then doing a grep on usenet-news should be an easy
> task, because servers and the files on servers are
> represented as files... so usenet-news as files on
> newsservers should possibly easily be grep'ed with what comes
> to plan9 users with the system?!
> 
> It would be a lot of sockets- and protocoll-programming stuff
> on Unix/Linux... but how easy whould that be on Plan9?

cpu% nntpfs news.songnetworks.no
cpu% cd /mnt/news/comp/os/plan9
cpu% grep 'grep on news' */header
[after "a while"]
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