Say I have an acme window with a $winid of 2. If I type the following commands: $ echo -n , | 9p write acme/2/addr $ echo dot=addr | 9p write acme/2/ctl I see the entire text of the window get selected. I had assumed that if I then read addr that I would get back two numbers, 0 and the final byte offset of the file (it is a non-zero length file). However, I get back two zeros: $ 9p read acme/2/addr 0 0 What am I missing? Jim