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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] another dusty upas question
Date: Fri,  2 May 2008 12:45:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502164839.CE21B1E8C4D@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52b6f6c54484541658d8b145e66d4021@quanstro.net>

All your previous questions were about mail delivery,
which I think is pretty consistent about not having
special cases.

> however, i'm not sure i fully understand the situation.  why does
> 	echo fu | upas/marshal -Fs bar quanstro/baz
> deliver the copy to
> 	/mail/box/quanstro/(f/)?quanstro_baz
> and not
> 	/mail/box/quanstro/baz/(f/)?quanstro
> where it would land if i filed it after-the-fact with nedmail.

Now you're into weird special cases.
How did you find the marshal -F flag, anyway?
It's not documented that I can see.
Maybe it should just be deleted.  What uses it?

Russ




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 13:29 erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 14:05 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-02 14:10   ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 14:23     ` Russ Cox
2008-05-02 15:22       ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 16:45         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-05-02 16:59           ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 17:30             ` Russ Cox
2008-05-02 17:35               ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 17:47                 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-02 19:31               ` erik quanstrom
2008-05-02 21:43                 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-02 21:50                   ` erik quanstrom

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