From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:53:10 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Expanded mhpath(1) man page discussion of its handling of out-of-range
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/b11a86cf7a0fc5b0dfef070e0bc65754c7d26016?ds=inline;hp=--cc

Expanded mhpath(1) man page discussion of its handling of out-of-range
message numbers, and fixed a couple of formatting glitches.
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b11a86cf7a0fc5b0dfef070e0bc65754c7d26016
diff --git a/man/mhpath.man b/man/mhpath.man
index 4ecb614e..ac46c012 100644
--- a/man/mhpath.man
+++ b/man/mhpath.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHPATH %manext1% "November 6, 2012" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHPATH %manext1% "January 20, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ is also useful in backquoted operations:
 /r/phyl/Mail
 .fi
 .RE
+.PP
 Because
 .B mhpath
 expands and sorts
@@ -138,12 +139,14 @@ mv `mhpath 501` `mhpath 500`
 .PP
 will do the trick.
 .PP
-Out of range message 0 is treated far more severely than large out of
-range message numbers.
+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
-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+.ta \w'ExtraBigProfileName  'u
 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
 .fi
 .SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"