Re: the new "-c" option of ifile-1.0.6

Jason Rennie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> Sorry for the late answer, some halfwit UPS has been giving me fits.
> Jason, do you want replies cc'd to you, or just sent directly to
> ifile-discuss? 

ifile-discuss is best.  I read that like regular e-mail; posting there 
means that everyone gets to hear what we're talking about (which is a 
good thing :)

[email protected] said:
>    I thought 'Q' was already taken, which was why I picked 'c'.
>    ifile --help reports: 

I think my earlier e-mail was unclear.  Clemens likes to use the -Q option
instead of the -q option when filtering e-mails.  I wanted to know if
you'd mind us changing the -c option from

  ifile -v 0 -h -q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '

to

  ifile -v 0 -h -Q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '

In the end, we decided it was best just to have the user specify whether 
he wants -q or -Q.  So, with 1.0.7, -c requires either -q or -Q. i.e.

  "ifile -c -q" translates to "ifile -v 0 -h -q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '"

  "ifile -c -Q" translates to "ifile -v 0 -h -Q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '"

  "ifile -c" reports an error message and aborts

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