On 5/18/06 2:42 PM, "Vincent Danen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think it would be hundreds of lines. Well, a raw count from the spec reached 117 lines*, but 1. Some of those could be omitted as being things that one would never type successfully at the command line--they are used internally when Exim execs itself. 2. There would be some growth if you enumerate the possible flags for the -d option. 3. And there would be some growth if you split out the various -qblah and -Rblah possibilities > > Now I feel challenged, however.... =) I'm going to patch exim to do > this and see how big it really is. I think this is a good idea. I resisted (silently) at first, but that was just a "change is bad" reaction (at 67, I'm allowed to do that). I would suggest crafting the patch so that executing the bare exim command continues to emit the brief form that it currently shares with exim --help probably with an "offer" of the --help option. *My count could have been off, particularly since I had a cat demanding attention while I was counting. --John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
