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From: rusty@steelmill.cs.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock)
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Subject: Re: New User question on message ranges
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:16:59 GMT
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In article <10432@ur-cc.UUCP> dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell) writes:
   >
   >   So far there's only one significant feature of mail/mush I can't find
   >in Elm, and that's the ability to operate on a specified range of
   >messages by number, e.g. "s 2-4 7-11 ~/newfile".  Am I missing
   >something, even after reading the Reference Guide, or are range
   >operations in fact not implemented?

Since Elm is menu driven it has a different way of handling "ranges".
What you'd do is "tag" your messages with the 't' key then do a save.

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