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Re: Appropriateness of new program/feature

2002-11-16 11:33:49
Jerry Peek <jpeek(_at_)jpeek(_dot_)com> wrote:

It's always bugged me that MH/nmh starts to install a new user setup if 
it can't find something it's looking for -- like the MH (.mh_profile) 
file.  IMHO, it should simply fail and print an error message that gives 
the pathname of the MH file that it's looking for (that's either the 
setting of the MH envariable, or $HOME/.mh_profile).  It could also tell 
the user how to install MH/nmh.  The error could say something like:

"<progname>: aborting: can't read <pathname-of-MH-file>.  Check your MH 
environment variable (if any) or run install-mh to install nmh."

I vote for that feature.

 -NWR


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