Subject: Export All Messages At Once?

From: MATTHEW BOULTER <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:49:51 +1000

I was wondering how I export ALL my messages in a certain folder at once. 
I am using pine on our Uni's file server, and I open up a folder such as a
newsgroup, I want to be able to export every message one by one, yes all
1500 messages. I know you can select the messages by pressing ' ; ' and
selecting the specific criteria. I tried to use e for export but that just
didn't work. The only reason why I figured it didn't work is because it
doesn't know what name to call each file? If that is the problem is there
a way to use a certain string as the filename mask at the start, say
'news.' then have it sequentially number each message after that?
If anyone can help PLEASE mail me with any suggestions.

Thanx in advance,

	Matt.
	[email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:54:21 +0000 (GMT)

It *is* possible to export all (or just selected) messages in a folder to
a file.

It is *not* possible (except doing each in turn yourself) all (or
selected) messages in a folder into _separate_ files.

If you wish you could do the former and then write a little program to
post-process the file containing the exported messages into separate files
for each message.

To export all messages in a folder into one file...

0.  Make sure you have the "enable-aggregate-command-set" option enabled
    in Pine's Setup Configuration screen.

1.  Go to the Index screen of the foler you want to export the messages
    from.

2.  Type:

	;		... Select
	A		... All messages
	A		... Apply a command to the selected messages
	E		... apply the Export command
	filename	... give the name of the file to contain the
			    exported messages

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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