right. but to make external processes work instead of using the typical shared-library-o-rama, you need to have decided what the system format is. in plan 9, *the* storage character set is utf-8 and Runes are used within programs; *the* image format is Image. in the gnu world, there is no base format, so using external programs to do this kind of stuff is much more difficult.
plan 9 really is a great piece of work. - erik On Fri Aug 11 09:11:15 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > if plan 9 provided fancy library interfaces for such things, > > we might be temted by the sirens "shared libraries" and "oop > > languages". > > > > Right but I'm not sure what that had to do with TCL? ;-). In some > ways having a binary you can call from another process *is* a kind of > "shared library" already. Just as the kernel is a shared library of > sorts.... but yeah I understand your point.
