Added note that suffixes were removed from filenames of temporary files.

[nmh] / man / mhpath.man

diff --git a/man/mhpath.man b/man/mhpath.man
index c4928b4a7de4c62c61deea9effe582b152180216..ac46c0125b29b7f8828c400c1be7244c0f47aeee 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mhpath.man
+++ b/man/mhpath.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHPATH %manext1% "February 18, 2012" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHPATH %manext1% "January 20, 2014" "%nmhversion%"

 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"


@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ mhpath: no messages in range 1\-2
 .RE
 .PP
 .B mhpath
 .RE
 .PP
 .B mhpath

-is also useful in back\-quoted operations:
+is also useful in backquoted operations:

 .PP
 .RS 5
 .nf
 .PP
 .RS 5
 .nf


@@ -115,10 +115,38 @@ is also useful in back\-quoted operations:
 /r/phyl/Mail
 .fi
 .RE
 /r/phyl/Mail
 .fi
 .RE

+.PP
+Because
+.B mhpath
+expands and sorts
+.RI [ msgs ].
+the command
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.nf
+mv `mhpath 501 500`
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+to will not move 501 to 500.
+Quite the reverse.  But
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.nf
+mv `mhpath 501` `mhpath 500`
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+will do the trick.
+.PP
+Out-of-range message 0 produces a different error message than large
+out-of-range message numbers.  But both cause
+.B mhpath
+to exit with non-zero status.

 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf

-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+.ta \w'ExtraBigProfileName  'u

 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
 .fi
 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
 .fi
 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"


@@ -138,32 +166,3 @@ is also useful in back\-quoted operations:
 .fi
 .SH CONTEXT
 None
 .fi
 .SH CONTEXT
 None

-.SH BUGS
-Like all
-.B nmh
-commands,
-.B mhpath
-expands and sorts
-.RI [ msgs ].
-So don't
-expect
-.PP
-.RS 5
-.nf
-mv `mhpath 501 500`
-.fi
-.RE
-.PP
-to move 501 to 500.
-Quite the reverse.  But
-.PP
-.RS 5
-.nf
-mv `mhpath 501` `mhpath 500`
-.fi
-.RE
-.PP
-will do the trick.
-.PP
-Out of range message 0 is treated far more severely than large out of
-range message numbers.