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From: jcohn@NOTE2.NSF.GOV (Jonathan Charles Cohn)
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Subject: Re: scan `pick ...`
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Date: 12 Feb 91 15:58:27 GMT
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>wiseb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (G. Bowden Wise) writes:
>>It seems that if no messages are generated from the `pick` part of
>>the command, then it simply scans my current folder.

>It doesn't do this on my system.  The latest release is MH 6.7.1.
>What version are you running?


This might be as dependent on the shell you are running as on the
version of MH.  I am running MH 6.7.1, and see the same type of
results.  If the backquoted pick fails, it should return a failure
code.  Some shells might still start up the command outside the
backquotes while others do not.

Jonathan C. Cohn
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