compile time options

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Stefan Bellon wrote:

>> >        The  -F	(force)	 ignores  threshold  values when printing
>> >        spamicity statistics.
> 
>> I don't understand this one, which makes me feel it is not
>> needed;-)
> 
> You need it for printing stats even if the spamicity number is smaller
> than the threshold (see gra_print_stats and rob_print_stats).

Where? The documentation is well hidden or non-existent.

>> >        The -I filename option tells bogofilter to read its  input
>> >        from the specified file, rather than from stdin
>> 
>> I cannot see a situation where we could not read from stdin.
>> So this would be superfluous.
>> 
>> >        The -O filename option tells bogofilter where to write its
>> >        output in passthrough mode. Note that this only works when
>> >        -p is explicitly given.
>> 
>> Why not capture this from stdout? So this could also go.
> 
> I vote against removing those two. There are certain cases of
> interoperability where applications only offer to save to a file and not
> to stdout (same goes for reading from stdin).

Can you give an example?

pi