From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920901180314t48cde099t3f36fea79afd180d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:14:10 +0100 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <4e6ca2050901171804le11e17bh9773c4b8ebe85766@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4e6ca2050901161707v6cf45421x76a01638059f8e50@mail.gmail.com> <4e6ca2050901171804le11e17bh9773c4b8ebe85766@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] =?utf-8?q?Les_Mis=C3=A9rables?= Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8209f150-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > Although there is already an ircfs for Inferno, since I don't want to > run Inferno outside of Plan 9 Why not? > and certainly not over a remote connection to Plan 9 Why not? > (these > also being my only options -- unless someone wants to start creating drivers for > Atheros wireless cards), I've begun work on an FS backed IRC client for native > Plan 9. Steve Q. has been kind enough to provide me with some ideas and code > from his previous tries at something like this (i.e., stuff previously found > inside /n/sources/contrib/steve/chatfs-unfinished.tgz). I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an ircfs for Plan 9 ages ago. Still, seems like a total waste of time when you have a perfectly fine one in limbo, which is a much more convenient language for building such a thing anyway. uriel