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Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-11 12:26:27
Maybe there shouldn't be a separate attach man page, but that doesn't
seem like a compelling reason, It just says that it shouldn't be in
man/man1 but possibly man/man7, See man 7 intro.

Okay, I could see that.  Maybe we really need a man page which spells out
all of the various MIME stuff in nmh, and attach could be part of that.
I was also reminded of mh-chart.1, and that's not a command so clearly
the rule about pages in .1 only being commands is not hard and fast.

Granted that what goes on under the hood (relationship of attach to send etc.)
needs documentation, there ought to be documentation for the user-clod like me,
who sees the attach facility as a separate entity. It should include such 
things
as: (these are examples)
[...]

It sounds like you know exactly what needs written.  So ... want to write
it?  You don't have to know anything about git; I'll gladly take care
of that part.  I'll even do my best to convert plain text to *roff if
you want me to (I can't claim to be the best at *roff, but I can do okay).

Very naive, stupid question: Why wasn't attach implemented as a shell level
command. Don't need to know, just curious.

I think Jon answered that question, but it occurs to me that attach could
have been implemented as a shell command and the functionality could have
been linked into whatnow just like we do with "send" today.  But that would
have been more work; I understand why that wasn't done.

--Ken

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