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
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