From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:19:03 -0400
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> Do you guys work mostly with flat file hierarchies or what?

For simplicity, I keep all my work in one huge file and use e.g.
	#ifdef ED
	....
	#endif ED
to extract the specific lines of C source that make up ed when
i need to work on ed. (I'm usually working on ed when I should
be working on cp; old habits die hard). This style of use means
for example there is only one copy of
	main(int argc, char *argv[])
on the system, which saves a lot of space.

I have some ideas for a similar technology to apply to 9fans.

-rob