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Re: [Nmh-workers] The -dist argument to post
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] The -dist argument to post |
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Sun, 27 Nov 2016 09:39:00 -0500 |
>Neither "man post" nor "../nmh/libexec/nmh/post -help" shows post's -dist
>argument.
>
>Am I confused?
You are NOT confused! It's not mentioned anywhere :-)
Why is not mentioned? Beacause it was never mentioned. I don't know if
dist(1) dates from your era, Norm; if it does, then I'd ask you why it
was never mentioned. If it dates from later ... well, we could always
ask around.
I suspect that the answer was that -dist was an internal interface, and
you were never expected to know about it. But I think that since we're
now exploring the value of a postproc, if you want to WRITE a postproc
you need to know what those switches are. So we should probably start
documenting all of that stuff. I think we've started doing that, but
documenting everything with nmh has always been a challenge.
--Ken