Subject: Marking a Message as Important

From: Barry Karas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:04:02 -0400 (EDT)

I use ver. 3.95.

When I go to mark a msg as important ("*"), I am then given a choice of
four options.  When I choose "I" (for "important"), I just get a beep and
nothing happens.  Why, and how can I fix it?  Thanks.

Barry

"If you tell a lie 40 times, it becomes the truth." -- Turkish proverb.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:20:10 +0100 (BST)

There was a slight change in the user interface to the Flag command in
recent versions of Pine.  Certainly it affects 3.95; I don't know the
version it was actually introduced.

If you give the Flag (*) command and then actually read the Command Menu
at the bottom of the screen (reproduced below) you should spot your
problem:

	Flag New, Deleted, Answered, or Important ?
	              N New         D Deleted    ! Not
	^C Cancel     * [Important] A Answered  ^T To Flag Details
	              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(Hint: as well as "*", the square brackets indicate the default command
which will be used if you just press Return).

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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