>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 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
