Subject: Re: Wrong Order

From: Monica Peffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

The incoming messages as well as the files I have created have reversed
order, in terms of the messages being organized in descending order
instead of ascending. This had just changed one time when I logged on. I
tried to change commands in the setup command, but wasn't sure which
command(s) need to be changed. I'm also wondering if it's not a program
error, because I'm pretty sure I didn't change any of the settings.
Anyway, it's pretty annoying since the highlighted message in the inbox is
now the oldest message instead of the newest. If you have any helpful
suggestions it would be appreciated. Thank you.

Monica Peffer
[email-masked]

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 07:21:38 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Monica Peffer wrote:

-> Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT)
-> From: Monica Peffer <[email-masked]>
-> Reply-To: [email-masked]
-> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
-> Subject: Re: Wrong Order
-> 
-> Hi,
-> 
-> The incoming messages as well as the files I have created have reversed
-> order, in terms of the messages being organized in descending order
-> instead of ascending. This had just changed one time when I logged on. I
-> tried to change commands in the setup command, but wasn't sure which
-> command(s) need to be changed. I'm also wondering if it's not a program
-> error, because I'm pretty sure I didn't change any of the settings.
-> Anyway, it's pretty annoying since the highlighted message in the inbox is
-> now the oldest message instead of the newest. If you have any helpful
-> suggestions it would be appreciated. Thank you.
-> 
-> Monica Peffer
-> [email-masked]
-> 
-> 
In the config-menu read help-page for 'sort-key'.
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Rudolf Kompf                     | E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:13:46 +0200 (CEST)

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   sort-key
This variable sets up the default index sorting. The default is to sort by
arrival order. It has the same functionality as the -sort command line
argument and the $ command in the folder index. If a sort-key is set, then
all folders open during the session will have that as the default sort
order.

In your pinerc, this looks like this:
# Sets presentation order of messages in Index. Choices:
# subject, from, arrival, date, size. Default: "arrival".
sort-key=

Just change that, and you're there.

  >Anyway, it's pretty annoying since the highlighted message in the inbox
  >is now the oldest message instead of the newest. If you have any helpful

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