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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Need help from rn guru
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Date: 7 Feb 90 13:31:00 GMT
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In article <22162@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jonathan@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jonathan  Eunice) writes:
|I would find it enormously valuable to be able to issue an m-nk command
|in rn.  While rn will let me do an m-nj, it does not accept k after a
|range.  . . .

I don't understand what m-nk would be expected to do.  k doesn't take
an article argument, it takes a (possibly implicit) regular expression
(search) argument.  j takes (possibly implicit) article number
arguments, so m-nj makes sense.  I can't make sense out of m-nk.

	/JBL
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