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Plan 9 from Bell Labs book
I would really like to obtain a book on Plan 9's design and ethos. Do such things exist?
Anybody have a recommendation?
(Asking here on the basis that Plan 9 was once meant to be Unix's successor, ...
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How to run programs with arguments like 'arg=val' (e.g. dd) in rc shell (Linux version ported from Plan9 OS)?
I'm trying to use rc shell (Linux port from Plan9 OS) and get 'syntax error' messages when using programs with arguments like arg=val.
; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
syntax error
; ls --color=auto
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What aspects of Plan 9 have made their way into Unix?
Plan 9 was developed by Bell Labs as a successor to Unix. Although for various reasons it never quite materialized as such, a fair amount of development still went into Plan 9.
My question is, what ...
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Any one here used Plan9 [closed]
Does any one here tried the Plan 9 by bell-labs which is a successor to Unix[according to wikipedia] if yes how was your experience.?