[WEB4LIB] RE: printing multiple message from pine at once

Shelley Voie shelleyv at kcls.org
Mon Jul 19 12:06:22 EDT 1999


Thanks to Darryl Freisen, Tom Zimoski, and Roy Tennant for the
instructions on how to setup/configure Pine to select a range of messages.
This will be a big timesaver!


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Roy Tennant wrote:

> If the instructions Darryl kindly provides do not work for you, go into
> Setup mode ("S" from the Main Menu), and select "Config" ("C"). You will
> then see more options than you probably imagined you had. Search for
> the "enable-aggregate-command-set" and enable it by hitting "X" when it is
> highlighted. Then you should be set. Many people don't realize just how
> powerful Pine is, since many of these options are not obvious.
> Roy
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Darryl Friesen wrote:
> 
> > > I'll tag another question onto Meg's ... is there a way to delete a range
> > of
> > > messages in PINE mail?  Someone once told me how to do this from a UNIX
> > > prompt, but I lost the commands.
> > 
> > 
> > Use the Select command ";".  After pressing ";" there's a number of methods
> > of selecting messages (all, by number, date etc).  Select the messages you
> > want to perform an action on.  Now use Apply ("A") to apply a command to all
> > the selected messages (like delete, print, save etc).
> > 
> > 
> > - Darryl
> > 
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Darryl Friesen, B.Sc.                        Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca
> >   Programmer/Analyst                            http://gollum.usask.ca/
> >   Consulting & Development, Computing Services
> >   University of Saskatchewan                   "The Truth Is Out There"
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 




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