[Info-vax] Backup API mailbox oddity

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-10, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> The following is one of the more remarkable bits of API documentation 
> in the whole of the documentation set, too:
>
> "Where possible, the Backup API emulates the behavior of the 
> interactive BACKUP utility if you pass a call that contains conflicting 
> qualifiers by:
> 	1	Making a best guess as to your intentions
> 	2	Ignoring the least likely of the conflicting qualifiers
> 	3	Issuing a message that warns of the conflicting qualifiers
> 	4	Processing the BACKUP request"
>

Ouch. :-( That's way too close to the Microsoft "we know better than
you do when deciding how to interpret your data" approach. If the
qualifiers are conflicting then make that an error for goodness sake. :-(

Simon.

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