[7089] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.2R: blanche
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 12 00:07:45 1991
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 00:07:37 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
One could argue that this is not really a bug report but is
rather a feature request. I think it is borderline, though, so
I am sending it here anyway.
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System name: m16-034-9
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2R
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Add 118 athena users to a newly created mailing list by using
blanche list -f file -v
What's wrong:
My file had all the usernames listed in uppercase. I
didn't prefix them with anything. Blanche calmly told
me for each entry that it was adding NAME to the list.
It wasn't until after I had added all 118 users (which
took 12 minutes) and then checked the contents of the
list with mrtest that I realized that all the entries
had been added as strings.
What should have happened:
I will grant you that the error here was mine, but if
blache had said for each entry "adding string NAME",
I would have noticed my error right away and would have
saved over 30 minutes. If I hadn't offered to do this
work for a friend and had instead told him about
blanche, he probably would not have noticed the problem
at all. This would have prevented users from removing
themselves from the list if they didn't want to be there
and would also have made it possible for people to be on
the list twice....
