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- From: cantor@star.enet.dec.com (Dave Cantor)
- Subject: Re: Another VMS Mail oddity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.141904.7827@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <m0msJ36-00004EC@seciu.uy>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:16:23 GMT
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- In article <m0msJ36-00004EC@seciu.uy>, molnar@ort.edu.uy (Andres Molnar - CECOM) writes...
- [...]
- >I've been receiving info-vax on my MV3100 (VMS 5.4-2) for 20 days, and
- >yesterday I decided to organize the stuff into folders in a subdirectory
- >mail file. I selected some mails which were related to DCL, and I moved
- >them all to a new folder named "DCL":
- >
- >MAIL> mov/all dcl
- >Folder DCL does not exist.
- >Do you want to create it (Y/N, default is N)? y
- >%MAIL-I-NEWFOLDER, folder DCL created
- >
- >I continued working for a while, and then I decided to take a look at
- >the folders:
- >
- >MAIL> dir/fold
- >Listing of folders in DKA100:[USER.MOLNAR.ORT-VAX]MAIL.MAI;2
- > Press CTRL/C to cancel listing
- >ALPHA ALTYPAHD
- [...]
- >VMS VUPS
- >dcl
- >
- >As it strikes to the eye at once, "dcl" is in lowercase and not in
- >alphabetical order. I tried to take a look at the folder then:
- >
- >MAIL> sel dcl
- >%MAIL-E-NOTEXIST, folder DCL does not exist
- [....]
-
- MAIL> select "dcl" ! <-- This is in lowercase, but quoted
- MAIL> file/all dcl ! Without the quotes, foldernames are translated
- ! to all uppercase
-
- -- --
- Dave C. cantor@star.enet.dec.com
- Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH 03062, USA
- The views expressed herein are my own, except where attributed to
- someone else. They are neither the opinion of, nor the responsibility
- of, Digital Equipment Corporation.
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