>> I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a
>> complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense.
>
> It falls over just enough to be attacked.  Otherwise, p9p source would
> have been ported back to Plan 9 in its entirety.  It's a shame,
> really, and with some work it could be fixed, but some of that work is
> design work.

There is already a tool to port plan9port code back to Plan 9.
See cp(1).

Russ

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