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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf8"><title>Plan 9 — The Documents (Volume 2)</title></meta></head><body><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.05in"></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.50in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><b>Plan 9 — The Documents (Volume 2)</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.50in"></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.17in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Introduction</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 From Bell Labs (<a href="9.html">html</a> |<a href="9.ps">ps</a> |<a href="9.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the system; read at least this paper before you install.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (<a href="names.html">html</a> |<a href="names.ps">ps</a> |<a href="names.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">What&rsquo;s in a name?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The Organization of Networks in Plan 9 (<a href="net/net.html">html</a> |<a href="net/net.ps">ps</a> |<a href="net/net.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Connecting the pieces.  The details in the paper are outdated but the ideas still apply.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Security in Plan 9 (<a href="auth.html">html</a> |<a href="auth.ps">ps</a> |<a href="auth.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Sean Quinlan</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the security architecture.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.17in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Programming</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler (<a href="comp.html">html</a> |<a href="comp.ps">ps</a> |<a href="comp.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The starting point for C programming under Plan 9.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Changes to the Programming Environment in the Fourth Release of Plan 9 (<a href="prog4.html">html</a> |<a href="prog4.ps">ps</a> |<a href="prog4.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview of the changes to the C library since the Third Release.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">APE — The ANSI/POSIX Environment (<a href="ape.html">html</a> |<a href="ape.ps">ps</a> |<a href="ape.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Howard Trickey</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Moving C code between UNIX and Plan 9.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Acid: A Debugger Built From A Language (<a href="acidpaper.html">html</a> |<a href="acidpaper.ps">ps</a> |<a href="acidpaper.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An overview paper about the Acid debugger.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Acid Manual (<a href="acid.html">html</a> |<a href="acid.ps">ps</a> |<a href="acid.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The reference manual for the language and its libraries.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Maintaining Files on Plan 9 with Mk (<a href="mk.html">html</a> |<a href="mk.ps">ps</a> |<a href="mk.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Andrew G. Hume and Bob Flandrena</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to Plan 9&rsquo;s replacement for </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>make</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt">.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 Mkfiles (<a href="mkfiles.html">html</a> |<a href="mkfiles.ps">ps</a> |<a href="mkfiles.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Bob Flandrena</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The conventions for using </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>mk</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> in Plan 9.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">A Manual for the Plan 9 assembler (<a href="asm.html">html</a> |<a href="asm.ps">ps</a> |<a href="asm.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Things you&rsquo;d rather not know.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.17in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>User Interfaces</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">8&frac12;, the Plan 9 Window System (<a href="8&frac12;/8&frac12;.html">html</a> |<a href="8&frac12;/8&frac12;.ps">ps</a> |<a href="8&frac12;/8&frac12;.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to the (previous) window system and its unusual implementation.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Rc — The Plan 9 Shell (<a href="rc.html">html</a> |<a href="rc.ps">ps</a> |<a href="rc.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Tom Duff</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">An introduction to the new shell, complete with examples.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The Text Editor </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>sam</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> (<a href="sam/sam.html">html</a> |<a href="sam/sam.ps">ps</a> |<a href="sam/sam.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><tt>Sam</tt></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> is the standard editor on Plan 9.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Acme: A User Interface for Programmers (<a href="acme/acme.html">html</a> |<a href="acme/acme.ps">ps</a> |<a href="acme/acme.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">A system with a more radical approach to programming and editing.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Plumbing and Other Utilities (<a href="plumb.html">html</a> |<a href="plumb.ps">ps</a> |<a href="plumb.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Inter-process communication that enlivens the interactive user interface.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.17in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Implementation</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Hello World, or &Kappa;&alpha;&lambda;&eta;&mu;&#941;&rho;&alpha; &kappa;&#972;&sigma;&mu;&epsilon;, or </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">&#12371;&#12435;&#12395;&#12385;&#12399; &#19990;&#30028;</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> (<a href="utf.html">html</a> |<a href="utf.ps">ps</a> |<a href="utf.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Rob Pike and Ken Thompson</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The details about Plan 9&rsquo;s character set: the Unicode Standard plus an ASCII-compatible encoding.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Plan 9 C Compilers (<a href="compiler.html">html</a> |<a href="compiler.ps">ps</a> |<a href="compiler.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Ken Thompson</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The design and some internals of the compiler suite.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Adding Application Support for a New Architecture in Plan 9 (<a href="libmach.html">html</a> |<a href="libmach.ps">ps</a> |<a href="libmach.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Bob Flandrena</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The procedures necessary to add a new instruction set to Plan 9&rsquo;s programming environment.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The Plan 9 File Server (<a href="fs/fs.html">html</a> |<a href="fs/fs.ps">ps</a> |<a href="fs/fs.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Ken Thompson</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The design of the central file server and its novel backup system.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Venti: A new approach to archival storage (<a href="venti/venti.html">html</a> |<a href="venti/venti.ps">ps</a> |<a href="venti/venti.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Archival block-level storage using secure hashes as block identifiers.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">The IL protocol (<a href="il/il.html">html</a> |<a href="il/il.ps">ps</a> |<a href="il/il.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><i>Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom</i></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.50in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.50in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">A description of the Internet protocol Plan 9 uses for internal communication.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0.08in"></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 1.00in; text-indent: 0.00in; margin-right: 1.00in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt">Lexical File Names in Plan 9, or, Getting Dot-Dot Right (<a href="lexnames.html">html</a> |<a href="lexnames.ps">ps</a> |<a href="lexnames.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2em; 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