Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1)

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >thinking about this further, i think i might rather teach Attach about
 > >mh message numbers and sequences than add a new Forward header. 
 > >Attach is already examining its file arguments to decide how to a
 > >attach any given file -- teaching it recognize message specifiers
 > >isn't a big stretch.  this would clearly lead to these two
 > >invocations having different results:
 > 
 > Two problems I see:
 > 
 > "Attach" means, "attach this file with a disposition of 'attachment'".
 > It takes one argument: filename.  The #forw directive (which I am
 > planning on emulating) takes a folder name and message numbers; it does
 > not create a disposition, so it defaults to "inline".  This means different
 > semantics for Attach depending on the file type; I think that's bad.
 > 
 > It's more code.

that's fine.  i was kind of typing while thinking.  and i hadn't fully
appreciated the "inline" distinction.

paul
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