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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!werner
- From: werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner)
- Subject: Function of <return> in Berkeley Mail
- Message-ID: <BzIKG9.77C@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:00:08 GMT
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- Hello, everyone. I wonder if someone can explain what seems to
- me an inconsistency in the command the <return> key invokes in
- Berkeley Mail.
-
- I'm using a PC with VT102 to Telnet into a UNIX system.If I
- invoke 'mail' with messages waiting, one press of the <return>
- key will, quite naturally, display Message 1. If I delete that
- message with the 'd' command (making "2" the current message) and
- then press <return>, the message displayed is not Message 2, but
- rather Message 3. Why is it that if "1" is the current message,
- <return> will print that message, but if any other number is the
- current message, <return> will display the next message in the
- queue, that is, the current message plus one? The 'man mail'
- page says 'RETURN' or "NEWLINE' works like the 'print' command,
- but, as I interpret the 'print' command, <return> only works like
- 'p' if the current message happens to be 1.
-
- Thanks for any and all help.
-
- Craig Werner <werner@world.std.com>
-