Re: [Nmh-workers] Multi-homed postproc, v2

[Bob Carragher]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:47:10 -0400 Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> sez:

> >Hi Bob,
> >
> >> with:  for some reason, bash seems to only save C-1
> >> characters of output, where C is the number of columns in the
> >> xterm in which I'm running the script.
> >
> >No, I don't think bash does that.
> 
> As Ralph pointed out, bash simply does not have anything to do with
> truncating the output ... if it's a Unix pipe it's not even involved
> (after the file descriptors are established).

Ah, good.  I was quite confused on this point!

> Now, there is a wrinkle here.  _IF_ you're using scan(1), by
> default it will truncate output at the terminal width.  See the
> -width option to scan(1) to change that.  Buuutttt .... IF
> you're doing whom(1) on the draft, then a) every email address
> ends up on it's own line, and b) whom(1) (really, post(8)) does
> NOT truncate the output at the terminal width.  I looked at the
> code AND I just double-checked that to make sure.  So it sure
> would be interesting to understand exactly what is happening.

That was it!