On Oct 12, 9:21Â am, porttik...@gmail.com (Anssi Porttikivi) wrote: > we really do not need protocols above the network layer, but HTTP, SMTP, > DNS, SOAP, IIOP, IMAP, IRC, SSH, SSL, TP, SNMP and hundred others can all be > replaced by "remote file access".
This sounds pretty interesting. You may not be aware of it, but there's a project called thimbl (I'm not involved in it) that is using the finger daemon on Linux to provide a Twitter-esque clone. I'm not aware of its exact workings, but it's something along the lines that a user's ~/.plan file is used as the Twitter post. I have plan9port set up on Slackware, and I was wondering how one might implement this idea using Plan 9. You're saying that my "post" will just be a file then, stored in a directory which others can read. Are there any docs you can point me to (Noddy learns Plan 9) which would give the basics as to how I might set such a thing up? Sorry that I haven't even made it to "day one" of Plan 9 yet.
