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Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum & invalid entries
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Tue,  8 Feb 2005 17:52:38 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 18:55 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> > Yes, that functionality is gone.  No one ever seemed to need it,
> > and I don't know the right way to express it.  I left the machinery
> > that made it possible.  In general I think it's better not to use
> > ambiguous key patterns.
>
> echo 'key -a|b proto=...' > /mnt/factotum/ctl, analogously to "bind"?
>
> For that matter, would ">" and ">>" possibly represent different
> operations (ducks!)?
>
> ++L

> means send output (stdout) to a file and overwrite its contents

>> means append output to a file

:)

--Devon