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diff discussion.roff @ 112:4e6a9ae1b53c
Added a bit of text on modern defaults; plus added code refs.
author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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date | Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:32:18 +0200 |
parents | 4c0f13b1e0e8 |
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1.1 --- a/discussion.roff Sun Jun 24 22:00:16 2012 +0200 1.2 +++ b/discussion.roff Sun Jun 24 22:32:18 2012 +0200 1.3 @@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@ 1.4 a text part with possibly attachments. 1.5 This case is simplified a lot for users. 1.6 1.7 + 1.8 .U3 "MIME Type Guessing 1.9 .P 1.10 The use of 1.11 @@ -2085,9 +2086,10 @@ 1.12 Mmh implements this approach in the 1.13 .Pn print-mimetype 1.14 script. 1.15 +.Ci 4b5944268ea0da7bb30598a27857304758ea9b44 1.16 Using it is the default choice. 1.17 .P 1.18 -A far better but less portable approach is the use of 1.19 +A far better, though less portable, approach is the use of 1.20 .Pn file . 1.21 This standard tool tries to determine the type of files. 1.22 Unfortunately, its capabilities and accuracy varies from system to system. 1.23 @@ -2104,6 +2106,7 @@ 1.24 .Pn file , 1.25 version 5.04 or higher, is available it should be used. 1.26 One needs to specify the following profile entry to do so: 1.27 +.Ci 3baec236a39c5c89a9bda8dbd988d643a21decc6 1.28 .VS 1.29 Mime-Type-Query: file -b --mime 1.30 VE 1.31 @@ -2245,12 +2248,30 @@ 1.32 .H2 "Digital Cryptography 1.33 .P 1.34 Signing and encryption. 1.35 +.P 1.36 +FIXME 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 .H2 "Modern Defaults 1.41 .P 1.42 -Just to give one example, for me it took one year of using nmh 1.43 +Nmh has a bunch of convenience-improving features available, 1.44 +but they are inactive by default. 1.45 +The user needs to activate them. 1.46 +Today one can expect every new user to want to have them available. 1.47 +The reason they are inactive by default is the wish to stay compatible 1.48 +with old versions. 1.49 +Surprisingly, the community seems not to care that the highly useful 1.50 +draft folder still is not available by default although it had been 1.51 +introduced over twenty-five years ago. 1.52 +.[ 1.53 +rose romine real work 1.54 +.] 1.55 +This is one of several examples that require new users to first 1.56 +build up an extensive profile in order to convert the default 1.57 +nmh installation into a convenient state. 1.58 +.P 1.59 +To give an example, it took one year of using nmh 1.60 before I became aware of the existence of the attachment system. 1.61 One could argue that this fact disqualifies my reading of the 1.62 documentation.