From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:29:59 -0500 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <13426df10804010611v30e4c07dlc6fe8c50b96d8ebd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <32d987d50803311543v48108999g2781e99a5fb1a733@mail.gmail.com> <4d5de7845e5186fd2e68bc0df9a2f2c0@hera.eonet.ne.jp> <13426df10804010611v30e4c07dlc6fe8c50b96d8ebd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] silliness in flight: build a desktop calculator with Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86bd0116-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:11 AM, ron minnich wrote: > btw another nice thing about having a desk calculator with the fd > hanging out in /srv/desk: I can have any process (awk pipeline) feed > commands into /srv/desk and have it pop up in my desk calculator. > Don't know why I didn't do this before. Also, it would be easy to drop > three dc processes at the end of /srv/desk, and have displays in my > calculator running always in dec, hex, octal -- handy for me! > > I've not really used /srv as much as I could have. > Wouldn't plumbing be better for this sort of thing? -eric