[Info-vax] Backup API mailbox oddity

[DaveFroble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Totally agree.  If one is not told of a problem, how can one know to fix it?

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