On 2005-10-05 14:13:08 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > For my information, is the "--" any sort of convention, or was it ad-hoc > on your part? I find it difficult to believe that this is the first time > that this has ever come up, and I'm hoping that you can point to other > applications that do this as well.
I believe all GNU tools support the "--" switch. For instance: $ file -- -foo -foo: MBX mail folder > For what it's worth, I generally use something like ~/-foo, although that > can have problems if your site sets mailsubdir. So I'm inclined to adopt > your proposed patch. I tend to have problems getting mailutil to use real path names, but that's probably just laziness on my part. > Another possibility is to have a -source and -destination switch that > takes a following argument (regardless of "-") so, e.g., you could say > something like > mailutil check -source -foo > as opposed to your patch of > mailutil -- check -foo > > I don't know which is clearer/more conventional. I would say my version, but probably I'm biased. -- Elliot Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator Brandeis University _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
