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[Nmh-workers] Changes to burst.man
From: |
Larry Hynes |
Subject: |
[Nmh-workers] Changes to burst.man |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:57:35 +0000 (UTC) |
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slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) |
I'm not sure how relevant burst(1) is these days, but here goes...
diff --git a/man/burst.man b/man/burst.man
index 88bd2d18..4360c448 100644
--- a/man/burst.man
+++ b/man/burst.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH BURST %manext1% "April 18, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH BURST %manext1% "December 15, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
.\"
.\" %nmhwarning%
.\"
@@ -25,18 +25,18 @@ Internet digests, and explodes them in that folder.
.PP
If
.B \-inplace
-is given, each digest is replaced by the \*(lqtable
-of contents\*(rq for the digest (the original digest is removed).
+is given, each digest is replaced by its \*(lqtable
+of contents\*(rq and the digest is removed.
.B burst
-then renumbers all of the messages following the digest in the
-folder to make room for each of the messages contained within the digest.
-These messages are placed immediately after the digest.
+then renumbers the messages which follow the digest, in the folder,
+making room for each of the exploded messages, which are placed
+immediately after the \*(lqtable of contents\*(rq.
.PP
If
.B \-noinplace
is given, each digest is preserved, no table of contents
-is produced, and the messages contained within the digest are placed at
-the end of the folder. Other messages are not tampered with in any way.
+is produced, and the exploded messages are placed at the end of the
+folder. Other messages in the folder are not affected.
.PP
If
.B \-automime
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ actions that it is taking to explode the digest.
It turns out that
.B burst
works equally well on forwarded messages
-and blind\-carbon\-copies as on Internet digests, provided that the
-former two were generated by
+and blind\-carbon\-copies as on Internet digests, provided
+that the former were generated by
.B forw
or
.BR send .
@@ -132,12 +132,11 @@ in a similar, but not identical, state to the context
achieved when using
.SH BUGS
The
.B burst
-program enforces a limit on the number of messages which
-may be
+program enforces a limit of approximately 1,000 on the number of
+messages which may be
.B burst
-from a single message. This number is on the order
-of 1000 messages. There is usually no limit on the number of messages
-which may reside in the folder after the
+from a single message. There is usually no limit on the number of
+messages which may reside in the folder after the
.BR burst ing.
.PP
Although
@@ -156,7 +155,7 @@ is not placed in a separate message by
.BR burst .
In the case of
digestified messages, this text is usually an \*(lqEnd of digest\*(rq
-string. As a result of this possibly un\-friendly behavior on the
+string. As a result of this possibly unfriendly behavior on the
part of
.BR burst ,
note that when the
- [Nmh-workers] Changes to burst.man,
Larry Hynes <=