Subject: changing a folder's name

From: Paul E Kayak <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:12:34 -0500 (EST)

Can a folder's name be changed?  Or alternatively, is there a way to move
a *set* of mssgs from one folder to another?

For any help, thanks in advance.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:41:04 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Paul E Kayak wrote:

> Can a folder's name be changed?

(I'm constantly amazed by how unadventurous or unobservant some people
are... :-)

1.  At the Main Menu type "L" to go to the Folder List screen.
    (This lists your folders(!) and lets you open/manipulate them.)

2.  Move the highlight onto the folder in question.

3.  Gaze thoughtfully at the command menu at the bottom of the screen:

    ? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr   - PrevPage D Delete R Rename
    O OTHER CMDS V [ViewFldr] N NextFldr Spc NextPage A Add    ^^^^^^^^

    ("Gosh! I wonder what that 'Rename' command does!" ;-)

> Or alternatively, is there a way to move

Admittedly this is slightly less intuitive in the first instance...

0.  (A once and for all step).  At the Main Menu go to the Setup
    Configuration screen by typing "S" then "C".  Look down the list of
    options and make sure "enable-aggregate-command-set" is selected (we
    configure Pine so that this is the systemwide default).

1.  Go to the Folder Index screen, which summarises the messages in your
    folder.

2.  Use the Select (;) command to choose an appropriate set of messages.
    Eg, ";A" will select all messages.

3.  Apply a command to the selected set using the Apply (A) command.
    Eg, "AS" will apply a Save command to every selected message, allowing
    you to move them en bloc to another folder.

Hint: As well as Select (;) and Apply (A) there is also Zoom (Z), which
temporarily hides all unselected messages from the Index listing.  A
second Zoom will include them again.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:55:09 -0400

> For any help, thanks in advance.

    Sure.  I've changed the name of a folder several times, at least
under different versions of Un*x Pine.  Just remember that to the Un*x
file system, a Pine folder is merely any other file with an internal
structure that means something to the application (Pine) that maintains
it.  If you try to _edit_ a Pine folder you could mess something up,
but merely renaming it doesn't seem to hurt anything.  (At least, it
hasn't for me.)

    Simply quit completely from Pine.  From the shell prompt (assuming
you are using Un*x Pine), cd to the subdirectory in which Pine stores
its folders.  (Again, I am assuming that it is a local collection.)  In
my case it is just $HOME/mail.  Just rename it what you want.  When you
fire up Pine again, it should show up in the folder list under its new
name.  I did it just the other evening.

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