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- From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VMS MAIL - Why Does DELETE/ALL Delete the Folder Too?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.151611.18640@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:16:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.135132.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>
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- In article <1992Aug13.135132.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>, jody@lib.haifa.ac.il (Yosef Branse) writes:
- >I organize my incoming mail into folders. Every so often I do some
- >housecleaning, in the course of which I use the command
- >
- > DELETE/ALL
- >
- >to erase the current contents of specific folders.
- >This operation also deletes the FOLDER, even though I'd like to retain it
- >for subsequent mail - next time I try to FILE a letter, I get the message
- >
- > "folder does not exist, do you want to create it", etc.
-
- This is mainly to protect all of us fumble-fingers who make a
- lot of typos...
-
- >This is like chucking out your filing cabinet every time you throw out some
- >old letters!
-
- No, deleting MAIL.MAI would be like chucking your filing cabinet. Deleting
- an empty folder is like pulling a manilla file folder out of the cabinet
- and tossing it in the trash can. What you are suggesting is like pulling
- a manilla file folder out of the cabinet, removing the papers inside it,
- and throwing them in the trash, and then putting the empty manilla folder
- back into the drawer.
-
- >I've looked in the manual and found no parameter for DELETE that allows for
- >retention of the folder. I know I can delete entries indivdually, but that
- >would be ridiculous; besides, I have a command procedure for automatic
- >purging of various folders.
- >
- >Any explanations of this phenomenon and suggestions for a cure would be very
- >welcome.
-
- "This is expected behavior."
-
- Use FILE/NOCONFIRM if the confirmation prompt bothers you. The default,
- of course, is FILE/CONFIRM.
-
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