>> 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
