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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.204505.5061@prl.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com> <1992Nov10.124824.10744@mks.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:45:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.124824.10744@mks.com>, davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander) writes:
- >
- > Of course you meant "transfer agents" in that sentence, since a
- > user agent can only work with what the TA gives it.
- >
-
- To be absolutely correct I should have said `delivery/user agents'.
-
- > The best format for a mailbox is a directory of files, each of
- > which contains a single message (wow! something that VM/CMS
- > got right!).
-
- Provided you have `append directories' that allocate unique names to
- each message on creation. Very do-able on Plan 9 where you could:
-
- open /mail/<user>/new
-
- And this gives you a descriptor to a unique file for your message.
- The file created would have to be of the Plan 9 (auto) locking type.
-
-
- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
-
- ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.'' -- Rob Pike
-