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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: MPX files (was: Deleted 4.1BSD functions)
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Date: 22 Dec 87 06:30:13 GMT
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In article <9921@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>	mpx(2)
>
>Gone and good riddance! :-)

Oh, I dunno...I always thought the concept was rather neat.  You
open a file, but it really isn't a file, it's a program that looks
like a file....

I even had them working more-or-less right once under DEC's V7m Unix
for the PDP-11.  That is, until one day they just stopped working.
I swear, I didn't change a thing!  They just never worked again... :-)

--Pat.