Re: Adding a header

Jason Rennie <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:17:25 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> good idea!  once ifile gets the "-h headers" (strip these headers) and
> "-H headers" (keep those) options, one of the headers to keep could be
> that special ifile-category header.  this way people could choose if
> messages are changed at all or in a certain way.

> however:  ifile doesn't currently change the messages, it uses stdout
> only for it's own output.  so this might be more in the direction of
> the -c (concise) option, where that output format is decided. 

I think it would be better for wrapper scripts to handle this 
functionality.  I don't think we should add an option to the ifile binary.

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
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(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/