From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Null Message-ID: Subject: [9fans] AIM software Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:46:13 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1ce35d06-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I'm reltatively new to plan 9, but I like what I've seen of it, and have set up a small network at home. I'd like to be able to use it as my main working environment, but there are a few applications I need first so I figured I'd write them. One of these, silly as it is, is an AOL Instant Messanger client because it's the easiest way to keep in touch with most of my friends. I've been looking at protocols etc and feel fairly confident that I can write something that will comunicate with AOL's server properly, but I have a few questions about plan 9 before I can set in to writing it... I was thinking of implementing, rather than a standard graphical client, a service, like webfs or ftpfs, perhaps called imfs or something, that allows you to select an IM service, and log on, and the presents available buddies and things like that as files that can then be written to/read from by any client (and just hacking out a bare bones functional client that uses this imfs for now). My only question about this is how do file services work in plan 9? My research skills are failing me, can anyone point me to some documentation on how to write the fs part of this? Anarkakari Anarkakari@abramelin.mine.nu