man page problems

[David Relson]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:54:41 +0100
Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at> wrote:


> 
> I finally found an example:-)) The message scores as
> 0.0000000000000000.
> 
> > $ my-bogofilter -vv<ttt
> > X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000, version=0.15.10/fisher
> > $ my-bogofilter -vvF<ttt
> > X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000, version=0.15.10/fisher
> >    int  cnt   prob  spamicity histogram
> >   0.00   56 0.029410 0.020725
> >   ################################################ 0.10   25
> >   0.148950 0.063321 ###################### 0.20    0 0.000000
> >   0.063321 0.30    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.40    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.50    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.60    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.70    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.80    0 0.000000 0.063321
> >   0.90    5 0.964669 0.196459 #####
> 
> Now I am wondering: If I want -vv, then I explicitely asked
> for it. So why not print it in the first place? So we could
> drop -F and always print if this is what the user asked for.

"-vv" doesn't mean "print the histogram".  It means "use verbosity level
2".  This is a generally useful facility for diagnosing problems. 
Remember the "-x" options?