[15110] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0K: mark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Fri Apr 25 12:41:33 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:41:24 EDT
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@MIT.EDU>
System name: m12-182-24
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.0K
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Read the man page for the mh program "mark," hoping to find a way to set
the current message in my inbox from the command line.
What's wrong:
The manpage claims
The name used to denote a message sequence must consist of
an alphabetic character followed by zero or more
alphanumeric characters, and can not be one of the
"reserved" message names (e.g., "first", "cur", and so
forth).
However, doing
mark <message number> -seq cur +folder
Actually works and does the right thing.
What should have happened:
The manpage should have been corrected and stated that using the
reserved sequence name cur works and sets the current message, or at
least not explicitly stated the contrary.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
/usr/athena/man/man1/mark.1
