[1061] in SIPB bug reports
xzwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Fri May 11 12:37:30 1990
Date: Fri, 11 May 90 12:37:06 -0400
From: Barr3y Jaspan <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: arty@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Xzwrite is a program that is intended to be run once, presumably when
you log in, and then remain running throughough the session. Since
you will probably send many messages to many different places with it,
the -c and -i options aren't very useful -- they only affect the
initial choice of destinations. You shouldn't use them.
If you want to add the "sipb" instance to your destinations list, you
can put the line "message,sipb" in your .xzwrite.dest file. (Note
that there is no whitespace between the fields.) Xzwrite only reads
.xzwrite.dest (or .anyone or .zephyr.subs) at startup; therefore, as
you noticed, changing the file while the program is running will have
no effect until you run the program again. If you cannot figure out
how to add new destinations to the xzwrite dest list while the program
is running from the man page, send me mail directly and I'll help you.
I am going to install a new (completely rewritten) version of xzwrite
Real Soon Now (meaning as soon as I get around to it) which, among
other things, DOES NOT HAVE a -i or -c option, because as I've said
they're useless.
Barr3y
