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

[Bob Carragher]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:49:12 +0000 Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> sez:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> > > Though I still think it should be the last argument,
> > > otherwise every postproc author has to solve the same
> > > problem.
> > 
> > I don't have strong feelings about this one; thoughts from
> > others?  Fixing it is a simple change.

I never even knew this was a possibility.  I've always put the
filename last.  I'm definitely in favor of limiting it this way.
Hopefully nobody has created a script that depends on this level
of flexibility.  B-)  (It's highly likely that anyone using a
custom postproc wrote it.  Is there some way to warn such users
and prevent post(8) from completing, so that they can update
their postproc without losing their draft or the draft being
incorrectly post(8)-ed?)

> I also find
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/man/post.man#n10
> confusing in that it ends
> 
>     [-notls] file [-version] [-help]
> 
> Assuming -version and -help have post exit before doing
> anything else, a more comman man page arrangement might be
> 
>     post ... [-notls] file
>     post -version
>     post -help
> 
> This would make clear the one single file is the large argument
> in the common case.

+1!

                                Bob