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From: gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: EXTRACT question (and reply)
Message-ID: <1349.25bc512f@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 23 Jan 90 12:42:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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>Date: 22-JAN-1990 07:03:06.08
>From: "P.R. Smith, NYUMC (212) 340-5356" <SMITH%MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
>Subject: Extract vs. Read and the counters/flags...
> 
>Hi:
>  Another eene-weene 'problem': If you 'extract' an item, rather than 'reading'
>it the 'read'  item count/flag is not modified.
>  It would not be unreasonable to have 'extraction' decrement this counter
>as  well.  For example, if someone has distributed software in 7 VMS_SHARE
>parts, you would want to extract them, not read them.  And you would not
>want them to appear in a READ/NEW afterwards. No?

The command you are after is 

	EXTRACT/SEEN

which will mark items as seen as they are extracted.


cheers,
Geoff Huston