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Bug#74628: mhonarc: problems with help/pager



Package: mhonarc
Version: 2.4.6-2
Severity: wishlist

This one is kind of silly, I guess but - it annoys me.

mhonarc seg faults (and depending on the state of ones ulimit stuff) 
dumps core if, during the usage statment, the pager terminates before
finishing.

[sjc@brake sjc]$ mhonarc 
Usage:  mhonarc [<options>] <mailfolder> ...
[skip] (I hit control see at the --more-- prompt)
  -checknoarchive          : Check for "no archive" flags in messages
  -conlen                  : Honor Content-Length fields
Segmentation fault

It does this whether I hit cont-c or "q" to tell more to quit. Doesn't
matter. Also...it is using more rather than defaulting to use:
/etc/alternatives/pager
(another nitpick)

imy last nitpick - it shouldn't run a pager at all... it violates the 
pricipal of least surprize
(I expect to have usage statments just spit out - thats what everything 
else does - its why my terminal has scrollback) 

Anyway - if it is to run a pager - it should at least do it correctly.

-steve

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux brake 2.2.16 #1 Thu Jun 8 11:35:47 EDT 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages mhonarc depends on:
ii  libdigest-md5- 2.12-1         MD5 Message Digest for Perl
ii  perl-5.004     5.004.05-6     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
	^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)



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