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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: scan `pick ...`
Message-ID: <27B82219.2966@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 17:12:57 GMT
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Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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>It seems that if no messages are generated from the `pick` part of
>the command, then it simply scans my current folder.

jcohn@NOTE2.NSF.GOV (Jonathan Charles Cohn) writes:
>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.

This might be a bug.  Pick is supposed to return the string "0", which
is supposed to make scan say:

    scan: no messages match specification

What shell are you using?  Are you giving pick any command line options
besides the selection criteria?
--
John Romine