[8897] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3P: mhmail doesn't accept a subject beginning with "-"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman rnewman@bbn.com)
Wed Jan 29 17:47:06 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 17:46:51 EST
From: Ron Newman rnewman@bbn.com <rnewman@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: e40-008-11
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3P (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
mhmail -s "-i help isn't logging" sethf
What's wrong:
It complains:
mhmail: missing argument to -s
What should have happened:
It should have accepted the quoted string as a Subject:.
It works fine if the first character in the string isn't "-".
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
None that I know of.