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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: acme mail
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:42:44 +0000
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> Actually you can use it with an absolute path (e.g., `Put
> /usr/geoff/stuff.m'), but you're right, it doesn't do anything useful
> with a relative path, to my slight surprise.  I guess I'd expected it
> to work like Save, except that it would create a non-existent file
> first, instead of complaining (which seems to be the difference if you
> supply an absolute path).

This works only because the Put message is being handed
back to acme, which is executing it internally.  Thus the
window contents, not the underlying message, gets written
to the named file.

Russ