Re: [9fans] another dusty upas question

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

>> 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?

☺.  i found it by reading the source.  i was trying to track
down all the places where mailboxes are fidded in the upas
source.

it does seem very wierd and marshal does a shimmy to
pull it off.  it would seem the only way to file outgoing
& incoming mail to/from the same person in the same
file.

(offtopic: there are at least a few other crunchy bits.
several copies of cistrn?cmp by various names.  there's
also a reference to an rmail program in send/main.c
does it (did it) exist on plan 9?)

- erik