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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: ~i shouldn't sort message numbers
Message-ID: <7136@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 22:49:07 GMT
References: <131248@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <131248@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jss@sun.com (Josh Sirota) writes:
} If I reply to a letter and try to include more than one with a single ~i
} statement, the messages should be included in the order specified.  That
} is, if I do "~i 5 3" I want message 5 to be placed into the message buffer
} before message 3.  Is that possible?

Not as things are currently done.  Message numbers are parsed by a
function that sets bits in an array to indicate which message numbers
were seen.  The bits are then read back out of the array in increasing
order.  There is no way around it.

We're going to dump this array-of-bits representation of message lists
when we get around to revamping some other things.
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "February.  The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
                                                                    -- Duffy

schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)