paul wrote: > On 2012-04-26 1:24 PM, David Levine wrote: > > Norm wrote: > > > >> They include adding to mail drops, moving files between and within > >> folders and editing context files (mostly to rename or remove > >> sequences). > > Though they can get clumsy, there are nmh programs to do each > > of those things. send/post adds to mail drops, refile moves > > messages between and within folders. > > ... > > I'd much, much rather use the high-level tools. > > > > I realize you provided examples so there may be tasks that > > aren't as easy to handle. If we need to add to existing programs > > to get what you need, I think that's the way to go. > > because i run some mh tools from cron, i am sometimes surprised when my > real time human commands that might be "pick ... -seq xyz; scan xyz" end > up having their folder changed out from under them. "-nochangecur" is > not as good a solution for this as a high level locking tool would be. > sometimes i want a script or a set of commands to have exclusive access > even if none of them is accessing the underlying files and directories > of mh directly.
but unless you use the locker from both the commandline and the cron-driven script, using it in either place won't help, will it? paul =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 58.3 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
