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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:14:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442428D9.9000808@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143178184.3558.2.camel@heater.intranet.ebr>

ems wrote:
> I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"

I haven't seen that many files I write to that have side effects on
other files.

/dev/eia0ctl for example.

I'm still not comfortable with that phrasing. It's amazing how it gets
misinterpreted by Unix and Windows folks ...

ron


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-16  8:11 Fernan Bolando
2006-03-16 13:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-03-16 16:50   ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17  1:05   ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 11:33     ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 12:03       ` Axel Belinfante
2006-03-17 15:39       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-20  3:44         ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-20  3:50           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-20  4:11             ` Russ Cox
2006-03-20  8:13           ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-24  5:29         ` ems
2006-03-24  7:49           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-24 17:14           ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-03-24 17:34             ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-24 18:11             ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-24 18:09               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-24 18:26                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-26  9:14             ` ems
2006-03-17 14:11 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 14:22 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-17 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-18  0:39 ` geoff
2006-03-18  0:59   ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-18  1:16   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-18  1:18     ` George Michaelson
2006-03-19 14:43   ` David Leimbach
2006-03-20  2:18     ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20  3:39       ` uriel
2006-03-20 11:50         ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 20:00       ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-21  2:41         ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-20 19:50     ` Aharon Robbins
2006-03-20 19:59       ` George Michaelson
2006-03-21 23:43       ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-17 15:12 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 15:21 Mike Haertel
2006-03-17 15:25 erik quanstrom
2006-03-17 16:17 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18  2:03 dmr
2006-03-18  6:12 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18  6:24   ` Tim Wiess
2006-03-18  6:36     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-18 13:31       ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 13:30   ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-18 16:28 ` George Michaelson
2006-03-18 23:13   ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-19  1:03     ` geoff
2006-03-18 14:03 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 14:14 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 18:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-18 19:01 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21  1:56 erik quanstrom
2006-03-21  3:43 ` dmr

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