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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: IOT Traps using Picks and Saves
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.164007.17600@cs.hope.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 16:40:07 GMT
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Organization: Hope College Dept of CS
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Help!  

In an effort to organize my mail and process it more efficiently, I
picked up on combinations of "pick" and "save".  So, wanting to save
summaries from Sun-managers, for example, I type 

   pick -i -t sun-managers | pick -i -s summary | save ~/mail/sm-summ

and I'll process it as a folder later.  Typing this in "mush" works fine.

However, I use mushtool for 99.999% of my mail processing.  So I defined
a function key to do the above as follows:

 fkey F10 "pick -i -t sun-managers | pick -i -s summary | save ~/mail/sm-summ"

Now the problem.  When I hit F10, I indeed get the summaries saved as
requested, but mushtool CRASHES with "IOT trap" error.

Is this an error?  Did I screw something up in building mush?  Or is this
kind of thing illegal from mushtool?

BTW, I'm using Mush 7.2.0.

Send stuff to me and I'll summarize (I hope).

  -- Mike

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

      "Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck
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