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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: VMS Mail oddity
- Message-ID: <9211212021.AA27470@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 12:16:41 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- I am running VMS v5.5-1 on a 6000-320 and noticed the following
- behavior of VMS Mail:
-
- 1) Read your LAST message, don't delete it!
- 2) Now type (N)ext, you will see the message about no more messages.
- 3) Now hit return.
- 4) You now will be reading your LAST message again, BUT it's message
- number has increased by one!
-
- This is an old bug. You left out one detail: Your last message has to be
- more than one screen long. In step 4, you'll see the next screen of the
- current message, but the the (N+1) message number.
-
- The same thing happens in the other direction: If you are reading the FIRST
- message and type BACK, see the error message, then hit RETURN, you'll see the
- next page, with message number 0.
-
- I would have explained this by saying that NEXT and BACK update the current
- message number but, on error, forget to clear the pointer to the message
- currently being read (which has been buffered). There must be a BIT more
- going on, though, since repeating the same sequence will not get you to
- message N+2 (or -1) - the number "sticks" just beyond the endpoint.
-
- -- Jerry
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