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Re: [Nmh-workers] Dealing with missing From: header during send.


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Dealing with missing From: header during send.
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:29:34 -0500

>You are the only person with the fortitude to go near that code lately,
>so all I can say is 'please document the new regime' ;-)

Well, the new functions are documented in the mh-format man page, and I
even put in the bits about repl's duplicate supression for formataddr
since that was news to me!

>More seriously, whatever else you discovered as you got there is worth
>documenting as well.  It's certainly one of the least understood bits of
>the code base ...

Maybe I'll add some comments to fmt_compile.c and fmt_scan.c.  It's not
_terrible_ (other than that code being horribly non-reentrant, but I
guess that didn't matter too much back then).  Also the memory management
is pretty much non-existent as well (I guess for single-shot commands,
it again wasn't a big deal).  But once I got into the middle of it
you could follow it reasonably well.  And I will note that Oliver Kiddle,
Josh Bressers, Peter Maydell, and Jeffrey Honig have all been inside of
that code, so if I get hit by a truck there is still hope for nmh! :-)

--Ken



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