Subject: Marking read or delete "to here"

From: Michael Kankiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 15:56:42 -0700

Is there a way to mark messagese for delete *up to a certain point*?
Let's say you get half way through a newsgroup, and want to get out, and 
delete everything up to where you are?  Thanks.

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					Michael Kankiewicz
					Business & Government Documents
					Lockwood Memorial Library
					University at Buffalo

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:14:56 +0100 (BST)

Two ways of doing this for Usenet News (or ordinary mail folders)...

*  The usual way is to delete the messages as you read through them (ie,
use the "D" command to "finish with" a message and advance to the next).

But if you don't do this and want to mark them "deleted"
retrospectively...

*  First make sure you have the "aggregate-command-set" feature enabled in
Pine's Setup Configuration screen.  Now open the folder and start working
through it.  At some point, when you want to break off, you can give a
series of keystrokes like this:

	; N		... Select messages based on their message number
	1-32		... Choose message whose numbers (within the
			    folder listing) are 1 to 32 inclusive.
	A D		... Apply a "Delete" command to the selected
			    messages

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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