From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40706230636r2c75ebc9m46bd28f08ebc1fe7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:36:04 +0200 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] About 9P ... 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