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From: daniel@bermuda.UUCP (Daniel Smith "innovation, not litigation...")
Subject: Re: setting up a list from pick?
Message-ID: <9105202336.AA03078@bermuda.island.COM>
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Date: 20 May 91 23:36:33 GMT
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> > > Bill "Rock" Petro - System Software Marketing wrote about "Re: setting up a list from pick?":
> [ schaefer@cse.ogi.edu wrote, on May 19,  8:41pm:
> > Subject: Re: setting up a list from pick?
> > 
> > It's not undocumented!
> > 
> >      output
> >           (Read-only string) This variable holds a message list
> >           representing the output of the last successful command.
> >           This is useful for recovering from broken pipes or to
> >           capture the output of a command without affecting the
> >           information it displays (some commands limit or
> >           suppress output when used in a pipeline).  ...
> 
> Well, it certainly wasn't undocumented after I blasted it all over the
> newsgroup!  I guess I haven't been keeping up on Reading The Fabulous
> Manual :-)

	Well, this doesn't work:

cmd     pf      'pick -f \!*; set m=$output'

	any ideas?

				Daniel