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From: tmoore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom.Moore@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Saving message to a file
Message-ID: <809@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 12:37:38 GMT
References: <143@cms2.UUCP> <1989Jul22.185115.7588@acheron.uucp>
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clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000) writes:

>From article <143@cms2.UUCP>, by alan@cms2.UUCP (Alan McCain):
>> This might be an elementary question, but I can't figure out how to save a
>> message to a regular file, one that's not in your Mail subdirectory.  I

>Just specify a fully qualified name such as /tmp/regular.file - Actually,
>I suspect that anything with a '/' in it will work - ~/regular.file.

Actually any filename not preceeded by an "=" or an "~" will do.

If the filename does not start with a "/", the resulting file will be
relative to your present directory.  

If the filename starts with a "/" it will be relative to root.

My problem tends to be just the opposite in that I forget to prepend the
"=" to the filename and end up saving files where I am rather than my
folder directory.:-)
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