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Subject: Bug#713: mh should pause after printing important message ?
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Package: mh
Version: 6.8.3-2

mh produces a message at installation time:
 Setting up mh ...

 Be sure to add /usr/bin/mh to your path!

However, it doesn't wait for the user to acknowledge it, so the user
could easily miss it.

This should either be documented somewhere else where the person will
look when they try to use mh and fail (this sounds tricky), or it
should get the user to press `enter' to acknowledge the message.

It might also be a good idea to mention to the sysadmin that they
should not edit the standard system path to contain /usr/bin/mh - only
those users who actually want to use mh should have it in their path.

Ian.

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#713: Acknowledgement (was: mh should pause after printing 
important message ?)
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