bogoutil -p and -w

[David Relson]

At 08:01 AM 4/7/03, Matthias Andree wrote:

>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,

I got that _and_ bogofilter-faq.html.  I think this is the first time I 
remembered those files.  I must be getting smarter as I get older :-)

David