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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:45:59 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On May 23, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Sape Mullender wrote:
> 1. Why would you want to create a file in the root directory in the  
> first place?
>    it's probably not a good place.

I had occasion to do this recently while porting to a new  
architecture.  Infrequent, but confusing for the first 3 minutes.

Paul

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