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From: duanev@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM (Duane Voth)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: picking and sorting
Message-ID: <619@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 20:34:46 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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I've been trying to pick and sort messages (letters? articles?)
in a folder but I keep getting this:

	Range not broad enough to sort anything

my command is:

	pick -t <pattern> | sort a

pick -t <pattern> by itself finds about 30 out of 94 messages.
sort with 's' and 'd' do the same thing.  what am I missing?



also, is there a way to "partition" the current folder so that
all unread messages can be kept in the same file but with all
messages addressed to a common place in one partition, messages
to another address in another partition, and remaining messages
in a third?  a blank line or an empty message would make a
reasonable partition divider which would then reduce this request
to a complicated sorting problem.  any ides?

(I'm running (6.5 4/17/89) [5/12/89])

duane
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