Hi Mark,
> Or were you thinking that /usr/bin/nmh would have functionality that's
> not available in any other executable, rather than just being a
> front-end, and there wouldn't be a stand-alone program 'mmdfunburst'?
Yes, new exclusive functions rather than a veneer front-end.
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Cheers, Ral
In the message dated: Thu, 25 May 2017 19:49:43 +0100,
The pithy ruminations from Ralph Corderoy on
were:
=> Hi Mark,
=>
=> > Do you mean /usr/bin/mh as a sub-directory?
=>
=> No, a new executable, e.g. `mh foo', `mh bar'.
OK, got it.
=> > I'd think that "unpackf" (or "burstmmdf") might be be
Hi Mark,
> Do you mean /usr/bin/mh as a sub-directory?
No, a new executable, e.g. `mh foo', `mh bar'.
> I'd think that "unpackf" (or "burstmmdf") might be better off in
> /usr/libexec/nmh.
Seems off to bury a command a user would want to run off-PATH over
there?
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Cheers, Ralph.
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In the message dated: Thu, 25 May 2017 18:57:42 +0100,
The pithy ruminations from Ralph Corderoy on
<[Nmh-workers] Nabbing /usr/bin Space.> were:
=> Hi,
=>
=> It's the "nmh" project, used in URLs, mailing lists, etc., but MH is
=> still prevalent in command names, ~/.mh_profile, etc., which is fi
Hi,
It's the "nmh" project, used in URLs, mailing lists, etc., but MH is
still prevalent in command names, ~/.mh_profile, etc., which is fine.
We've lots of user commands, and have created ones that seem to
potentially tread on others' toes a bit with their genericness, e.g.
new(1). We've also g
>Well, gosh. I stand corrected; I should have read RFC 822 before
>making that decision (back whenever it was). I can only assume
>that I had based it on what I thought was allowed in mail before
>RFC822. If I had been designing SMTP I wouldn’t have allowed all
>128 ASCII characters. The first 8 wo
Ken Hornstein writes:
>>No, it always was in band - the 4-SOH sequence was searched for in all
>>lines of the message, and SOH has always been a possible character in
>>e-mail. Just even more unlikely years ago than it is now.
>
> You know, I _was_ going to disagree here but Robert is, as he al