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Re: update folder? [y]

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From: Dan Heller
Date: Wed, 17 May 1989 05:24
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In article <1699@taux01.UUCP> crehta%taux01%nsc.com@sun.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
> Mush asked:
> update folder? [y]
> By mistake I typed some character other than 'y' (or SPACE), and mush said
> folder unchanged
> And I lost all my changes.
> I suggest that any answer to 'update folder? [y]' other than 'y' or 'n',
> will cause mush to assume typing error, and ask again.

Assuming a typing error is a good point, but currently that's not how
it works.  Anything other than y or whitespace assumes no (newline is
whitespace) is how is currently works.  This was a hot topic a long time
ago and mush-users decided that the current way it works is the most
widely desired.
Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: update folder? [y]
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