>We think currently about removing the Previous-Sequence support for
>mmh. But because we don't use it we are not sure, if we missed some
>aspect of it. Therefor I would like to ask some questions.
I personally find the previous-sequence rather useful myself (when you
find, for example, the results of "pick" were rather larger than you
expected and didn't put it in a sequence). But that's up to you.
>When and why was the Previous-Sequence introduced to mh or nmh?
Looks like it has been around for a while. From mh4/MHCHANGES:
Mon Jul 16 00:21:52 1984 Rand MH mail system (agent: Marshall Rose) <mh@uci-750
a>
Install the new Previous-Sequence mechanism. Introduce the SEQMOD
flag to the msgs structure. Just about every MH program now calls
m_setseq () upon parsing the messages and calls m_sync() prior to
exiting.
Before my time, so I can't really answer the "why".
--Ken
