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From: Connor Lane Smith <cls@lubutu.com>
Date: Sun,  3 Jul 2011 13:32:11 +0100
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On 3 July 2011 12:55, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> and yet there's a key difference.  this is a private joke amongst gnome
> processes. =C2=A0i can give "file" references to gnome programs like http=
://example.com
> to a gnome proc. =C2=A0cat(1) won't accept the same reference.

Well yes, it would only make sense in an OS which only uses GIO,
rather than standard Unix IO.

cls