Re: No effect from -h option?

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:09:03 -0400, Jason Rennie <[email protected]>
wrote:
 > [email protected] said:
 >> This isn't really consistent with my expectation, and in fact would
 >> seem to indicate that the parsing is quite different from what the
 >> documentation says. But maybe I misunderstand? 
 > -h removes all headers except for From:, To: and Subject:
 >   -h, --strip-header         Skip all of the header lines except Subject:,
 >                              From: and To:
 > So, it looks like ifile is doing the right thing.

But what happened to the contents of the To: and From: fields? And why
was the contents of the Subject: field included when I ran without -h?

I can read what the documentation says and I can see what it's doing,
and the two don't match up ... or I misunderstand something.

Ahh, maybe I should try the -k option, too, or use less generic test
words in my tests :-/

 $ ifile -p -h <<HERE
 > Koe: kaniini
 > Metalanguage: finnish suomi
 > 
 > desding
 > HERE
 Reading message from standard input...
 (1,desding) 

 $ ifile -p <<HERE
 > Koe: kaniini
 > Metalanguage: finnish suomi
 > 
 > desding
 > HERE
 Reading message from standard input...
 (1,metalanguage) (1,finnish) (1,koe) (1,suomi) (1,kaniini) (1,desding) 

Maybe the documentation could be a bit more explicit about this?

Sorry for being daft; now returning you to your regularly scheduled
program.

It's still interesting to notice that +nothing+ in the headers made
any difference in the rather large test I did. (Or maybe I messed up
the test somehow.)

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