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Subject: Re: [9fans] QTCTL?
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:48:13 +0000
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> It=C2=B4s "behaves like a file vs does not".
>=20
> ... But some files do not behave as files

that description seems to assume that there is a real, proper, honest-to-=
God
file (you know, that has the decency to be located on a proper disc somew=
here)
that defines the "expected" behaviour.

a "file" in Plan 9 (or Inferno) is something you can name, open, and read=
 and (perhaps) write.