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The commandline for reply makes very little sense to me right now. There isn't a way to specify the author/permlink designation of what comment I'm replying to ? There is an AUTHORPERM, that I assume is the posting signing key for posting, but not sure why it's called AUTHORPERM, so maybe it's something else. Or is it the misnamed permalink to the post I'm responding to, and is the only way to get the signing key string in by importing it to a wallet (the exact thing I don't want to be doing) ?

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I haven't used this solution but my best guess it's the author/permlink and you need to setup encrypted wallet account with passphrase first then unlock to use it.