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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme, dump, and $HOME
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On 1/13/14, 11:57 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
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> On 13 January 2014 16:42, Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com
> <mailto:paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Can anyone explain to me the rationale of Dump dropping acme.dump in
>     $HOME instead of $PWD?
>
>
> alternatively, if started with acme -l dumpfile, why not write it back
> to the same file?

I had written a rather quick patch to do that very thing for p9p acme:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=n7dZiQrS

I'm sure it could be done better, but here's the patch regardless.