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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm destroys links!
Summary: It isn't impossible!
Message-ID: <1989Jul30.001355.29095@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 30 Jul 89 00:13:55 GMT
References: <924@pcsbst.UUCP> <5823@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <816@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> <5849@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <5849@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>Being familiar with how elm opens and leaves mail folders, I see no
>why around this [destroying links]

Since ELM 1.5b did not destroy links, it seems very possible to me.
I used 1.5 for over a year and edited folders with the elm -f command,
which deleted messages from both the specified folder and its links
without breaking the links.  It is a matter of using a copy rather than
a move I imagine.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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