Subject: Dump question about pine

From: Yeung Chee Wai <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 18:58:45 +0800 (HKT)

Hi,

	does pine have the equivalent of /usr/ucb/mail's "x" command 
which quits mail WITHOUT touching the inbox? How can I emulate such feature?

Thanks

Chee Wai

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From: "Brian P. Hampson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 08:13:24 -0700 (PDT)

> which quits mail WITHOUT touching the inbox? How can I emulate such feature?
Don't specify a "read-messages" folder.  Then when you "q" it will keep 
all mail in the inbox, as mail would.

B.

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From: Elmar Kurgpold <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 10:00:43 -0700 (PDT)

Actually, the "x" command in ucb mail exits the program without changing
the status of any messages (new messages are still new, deletions are not
recorded...).  As far as I know, the closest you can get to that in Pine
is to press Q and then answer N to the question of "Expunge the NNN
deleted messages from INBOX?"  This still will leave you with a modified 
mailbox, but only the Status line will be changed.

	Elmar

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 13:35:40 -0700 (PDT)

> which quits mail WITHOUT touching the inbox? How can I emulate such feature?

No, there is no such feature.  In fact, pine periodically checkpoints the 
file as it goes so that you won't lose any changes.  There is no way to 
go back to the way it was when you started.  If you know you want to do 
this ahead of time, you can open the folder read-only by specifying the 
-o command line flag.  In that case, no changes will be made to the folder.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle