how to put a program into a .plan file

[Thomas Truscott]

> >**  A process to create dynamic .plan files.  Creates a fifo, waits for
> >**  someone to connect to it.  
> 
> We have here a couple of machines (suns) using the same userdisks.
> If I start the program on one machine, and try to finger myself from 
> another, the finger program locks up. ...

That is because NFS does not support remote named pipes.
(Or if you prefer, each client gets a "non-interfering"
instance of the named pipe!)

If you want this to work I suggest you get Freedomnet,
which also supports supports remote devices, program execution, etc.

	Tom Truscott