From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40711011119r7d7ef3aasb69e04b28b920f49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:19:57 +0100 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] QTCTL? 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