Subject: saving messages chronologically

From: Kevin Franken <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:19:42 -0500 (CDT)

Hello -

University students are trying to save specific messages to a folder which
they want to ftp/download to their PC to save.  However, even though the
messages are sorted chronologically in the folder, they appear NOT in
chronological order once downloaded to a file of their PC.  Why aren't the
messages being downloaded in the way they were sorted (chronologically)?
Perhaps the messages were originally saved in non-chronological order,
and that explains the non-chronological message order once downloaded(?)
Is there a way to download these messages in chronological order?  Or,
must Pine users originally save messages in the order they want to save
the messages?

If Pine cannot download messages in a chronological order, are there any
programs that can?

Thank you!

Kevin Franken

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:15:55 -0700 (PDT)

*** Kevin Franken wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) University students are trying to save specific messages to a folder which
:) they want to ftp/download to their PC to save.  However, even though the
:) messages are sorted chronologically in the folder, they appear NOT in
:) chronological order once downloaded to a file of their PC.  Why aren't the
:) messages being downloaded in the way they were sorted (chronologically)?

Whatever be the order in the *INDEX* is not necessarily the order in the
folder. The order in the folder is by default the one in which the
messages in it were saved, which is usually by "arrival" (this is because
this is the order in which the MDA saves them in there), if you need
another sorting type use the $ key to sort the *INDEX*. You can save the
new order in the index to be the sorting method of your folder by using
the agregate operation (press ; a a <folder-to-use-to-save-the messages>
and then rename the second folder to be the first)

 I hope this helps.
 
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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Kevin Franken <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:14:01 -0500 (CDT)

Your suggestion worked!!  Thank you so much!!  Some friends of mine who
know a lot about computers and Unix said that Pine would not have such a
system in place that would do what I wanted.  I said I doubted that, then
I contacted the pine list.  And you proved them wrong and me right!
Congratulations!!

Kevin