Re: [9fans] rfork(RFPROC) and ffork()

["erik quanstrom" <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

thanks for the information. i'll take a look at upas.

the reason i was looking into faces is because i just wrote
a (not-so-simple-anymore) maildir mail "reader". it's vaguely like nedmail
(from what i've read) except each command is a seperate executable.
e.g.

; thread
mcat $m/1130599988.10533*	# 2005.10.29 10:08   "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtc	[9fans] 386
    mcat $m/1130612580.12213*	# 2005.10.29 14:07   "William Josephson" 
        mcat $m/1130624105.13127*	# 2005.10.29 15:01   jmk@plan9.bell-labs.
            mcat $m/1130624106.13151*	# 2005.10.29 15:06   "Lucio De Re" <lucio

where each line of thread output is ment to be cut-and-pasted.
(there's also fwd, reply, mdesc, attachments, and detach.)
it's a little clunky right now. and it's not a p9p program because
i wanted to use it on a couple of linux machines that don't have p9p
installed and most mail readers require cursor addressing. It could
be, though if i converted the "long" print formats

btw, why does upas use the mbox format rather than a directory?
just wondering.

Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> writes

| 
| Ffork is gone; use libthread instead.  I've updated the message.
| 
| As for faces, John Cummings has a working faces.  I'm hoping
| he will send it to me so I can include it in the distribution.
| He also got upas and acme mail running enough to read
| mail (I believe via pop or imap) on his system.  I've checked
| in the code to CVS.  It may need some cleaning up (any volunteers?)
| and is not built by default, but it's there.  See
| src/cmd/upas and src/cmd/acme/mail.
| 
| Russ