Ken wrote: > I was working on post, and I came across these switches. I was > wondering if any of the greybeards here happen to know what they're for: > > -deliver Claims that the argument is an address-list, but from the > code it seems to do ... nothing? Hm. Maybe in the > old days it was used when compiling in MHMTS ... and > I have no idea what THAT is for. Any ideas? > > -fill-in Maybe when you're doing whom ... it redirects the > output of that command to a specified file? Maybe? > No, it seems to do more. Anyone know? > > -fill-up Seems to change behavior when you're doing a "whom". > Again ... what the hell?
Right, -deliver was used only with MHMTS. And it looks like only by the long-extinct rmail. I don't see it documented anywhere. -fill-in and -fill-up were used only by whom in support of White Pages. I won't try to paraphrase this: If MH is compiled with the WP option, send recognizes an address between < and > characters such as: To: < rose -org psi >; to be a name meaningful to a whitepages service. In order to expand the name, send must be invoked interactively (i.e., not from push). For each name, send will invoke a command called fred in a special mode asking to expand the name. fred, FRont-End to Dish, is documented here: ftp://165.87.194.246/pub/gen-info/NYSERNet_Guide-v2.txt WP support was removed from MH 6.7.2 in '92. Clearly we can nuke all of this. All of the fprintf's to "out" could be removed, there's quite a few of them. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers