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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P clients for other OSes?
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:56:48 -0400
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> I came across Ronald Minnich's 9P work for Unixes, but I'm just
> curious, has anyone attempted the same for Windows, Macintosh, etc?  I
> realize the uses might be more limited, but it would seem that if a 9P
> client is easier to write than, say, an SMB server for Plan 9, it
> could be extremely useful for file service in a heterogenous
> environment.

someone in france (at inria or univ-paris8?) announced an smb
client, though i haven't seen the code.

i'm thinking hard about writing a translator for plan 9
and unix to go between smb, 9p, nfs, sfs, and maybe afs.
(i have too many file services i'd like to connect to.)
we'll see.  probably in the fall.

russ