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1Once upon a time Upas ran on many versions of Unix.
2This is a partial rewrite to ANSI C specifically for Plan 9.
3It uses's Plan 9's bio library instead of stdio and Plan 9's
4regular expression library.
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6I've tried to make portability possible but it has
7never been ported.  To port Upas to another system:
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9	- port Plan 9's libbio library working on that system (already available).
10	- port Plan 9's regexp library working on that system (should just compile).
11	- rewrite common/libsys.c to reflect system calls for that system.  This
12	  file contains all the really system dependent code that differs between
13	  Plan 9 and each Unix.  This includes file management, signal
14	  handling, process control and error handling.
15	- change the important directory trees in common/mail.c to reflect
16	  where you want things like
17	- get the ARGBEGIN/ARGEND/ARGF macros from Plan 9's libc.h
18	- get the include files correct in common/sys.h
19	- rewrite smtp/mxdial to use the conventions of that system
20	- rewrite runq.c to walk queues on that system.
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