From: danw <danw>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 09:22:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document new blanche exit status semantics. (Don't claim success
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Document new blanche exit status semantics. (Don't claim success
unless all adds and deletes succeeded.)
---

diff --git a/man/blanche.1 b/man/blanche.1
index 1563164a..51fc3874 100644
--- a/man/blanche.1
+++ b/man/blanche.1
@@ -109,6 +109,14 @@ Mark Rosenstein and Jay Berkenbilt.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 listmaint(1)
 
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+The exit status from blanche is not as useful as you might hope. An
+exit status of 2 indicates a problem contacting the server or reading
+an input file. An exit status of 1 indicates that at least one add or
+delete failed, and an exit status of 0 indicates that all adds and
+deletes succeeded. If you need the exit status to be meaningful, you
+should only do one add or delete at a time.
+
 .SH NOTES
 The listname doesn't actually have to be the first argument, but if
 you put it anywhere else, it's easy to get the other arguments in the