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From: Jan Hubicka hubicka@hor...
Subject: [9fans] porting XaoS3.0 to plan9 (problems)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:44:47 +0200

On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 08:08:38AM +0000, forsyth@cal... wrote:
> >>so I have plan9 manpages at my linux box. Reboot always you need some
> >>help is not very nice. At least I should copy them to dos partition and
> 
> there are several packages for Plan 9 out on the net that make
> a user-level file server that will allow you to read, or even read and write,
> a Linux ext2fs partition.  that might make things a little easier for you.
Sounds great! I have to rebrowse 9fans ftp sites :)
Is that safe? Plan9 once damaged fat partitions so I am bit more curefull
now...

BTW is there some other interesting news about plan9? Something changed
in distribution poilticy? (I really want to see sources once...)
whats about brazil?
> 
> Plan 9's man is just an rc script; it's a close relative of the example
> in the tom duff's rc paper.
OK. I will download it soon!

Many thanks
Honza
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