bogoutil -p and -w

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Apr 7 14:01:05 CEST 2003


David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> Matthias,
>
> As you know most of bogoutil's options are a single letter followed by a
> file or directory name.  Examples of these are '-d' (dump), '-l' (load),
> '-m' (maintenance mode), and '-w' word stats.  Dump and load take a
> filename and use stdin/stdout.  For maintenance mode, additional flags
> are needed to tell bogoutil what to keep/discard.
>
> And then there's the different one, '-w' which is used to display word
> counts and has optional modifier '-p'.  When used togeether, bogoutil
> displays the word's message counts and spam scores, i.e. probabilities,
> for the graham and robinson algorithms.  I'm thinking that '-p' should
> be upgraded from a modifier of '-w' to a command of its own - on a level
> with '-d', '-l', '-m', and '-w'.  Rather than require '-p' to be used
> with '-w
> directory', the usage would be '-p directory'.  This would make it
> easier to use and more consistent.
>
> What do you think of this idea?

Go for it, and remember to upgrade doc/bogoutil.xml ;-)

-- 
Matthias Andree




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