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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
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Subject: Re: New "-ask/-noask" options for 'refile' (patch for MH 6.7.1)
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Date: 11 May 91 14:36:46 GMT
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Brent Chapman writes:
>Anyway, I'd like to see this get rolled into the standard MH release,
>particularly since it is totally backwards compatible (the default preserves
>the old behavior), but I don't know who to send it to in order to make
>that happen, so I'm posting it here. 

Generally, that is the purpose of mh-workers, a mailing list
designated for MH "workers".  If you would like to be added to the
list, send mail to mh-workers-request@ics.uci.edu.

Your patch, from what I scanned through briefly, looks good.
I do recommend to the powers that be (aka jromine) that the switch
be called "-silent" and "-nosilent" to conform with what is
already used in other programs like inc(1).  I would also suggest
that in future releases, that this kind of switch be standard-
ized across all programs.  For example, rmf uses -interactive
to do the same thing as -silent and -ask.  Of course the old
switches could still exist (but be hidden) to provide backward
compatability until a major release (like MH7).

Just my $0.03.
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