Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

[Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@gmail.com>]

On Oct 12, 9:21 am, porttik...@gmail.com (Anssi Porttikivi) wrote:

> we really do not need protocols above the network layer, but HTTP, SMTP,
> DNS, SOAP, IIOP, IMAP, IRC, SSH, SSL, TP, SNMP and hundred others can all be
> replaced by "remote file access".

This sounds pretty interesting.

You may not be aware of it, but there's a project called thimbl (I'm
not involved in it) that is using the finger daemon on Linux to
provide a Twitter-esque clone. I'm not aware of its exact workings,
but it's something along the lines that a user's ~/.plan file is used
as the Twitter post. I have plan9port set up on Slackware, and I was
wondering how one might implement this idea using Plan 9. You're
saying that my "post" will just be a file then, stored in a directory
which others can read. Are there any docs you can point me to (Noddy
learns Plan 9) which would give the basics as to how I might set such
a thing up?

Sorry that I haven't even made it to "day one" of Plan 9 yet.