> I don't think I ever had a reason for that assumption beyond laziness and > craziness.
Not so crazy. RTFMing in Plan 9 requires close attention - minimalist style
means every word matters. The clue is in ndb(6):
Ndb/cs can be made to perform such network aware searches by
using metanames in the dialstring. A metaname is a $ fol-
lowed by an attribute name. Ndb/cs looks up the attribute
relative to the system it is running on.
