Like much of the Plan 9 operating system, many operations work by reading and writing to special files.

Our visitor looked at his special file for passwords and found none.

We don't answer abusive mail, but it does get filed in a special file for future reference.

You can then bring the special file to me.

This account has very limited access, and is often only allowed to access special public files.

These named pipes are special files that can exist anywhere in the file system.

His written statements were kept under key, in special files.

"The fingerprints of dead people go into a special file."

"I kept all the correspondence in a special file," the editor said.

First, the house located the special file in its copious memory.