That would be very interesting indeed. Even Plan 9 requires you to mount tar files with a special command instead of simply typing "cd file.tar". The Plan 9 d

That would be very interesting indeed. Even Plan 9 requires you to mount tar files with a special command instead of simply typing "cd file.tar". The Plan 9 developers were conservative about preserving the semantics of commands like "cd", so that the system did not diverge too greatly from Unix. Instead, the equivalent of double-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer is handled by right clicking on a file in Acme. Acme sends the filename to something called the "Plumber", which then uses rules to decide what to do with the file: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/using_plumbing/ http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/using_plumbing/