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- LIST - send messages to a file or to a shell command
-
- Usage: LIST [/switch] filename [message-sequence]
- or: LIST [/switch] |"shell-command" [message-sequence]
- Unless specified, the message-sequence is "current".
-
- The LIST command copies the message(s) to a file or to a shell command.
- The result contains a table of contents (like a HEADERS command) for the
- message(s), then a page break, then the message(s). You may specify
- one of two /switches, as options:
- /headers-only: print only the header (like a HEADERS command).
- /separate-pages: put page breaks between messages.
-
- The command LITERAL LIST will print all header fields regardless of settings
- of DONT-PRINT-HEADERS or ONLY-PRINT-HEADERS. SET LIST-ON-SEPARATE-PAGES
- YES is the same as using /separate-pages every time. SET LIST-INCLUDE-
- HEADERS NO will eliminate the table of contents on the first page of output.
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- The file created with LIST is not a mail file readable by MM (use COPY or
- MOVE to create a mail file). LIST does not append to existing files,
- so if you use the name of an existing file you will be replacing it.
-
- The first version of the LIST command sends the messages to a file.
-
- MM>list joe 14 #sends message 14 to a file "joe"
- MM>list /headers-only hdrs all #sends only the headers, of all
- messages, to a file called "hdrs"
-
- The second version of the LIST command is similar, but sends the messages
- as input to a shell command. Use the unix pipe symbol (|) and put
- quotation marks (") around the shell command. For example, one way of
- printing a message is to LIST it to a print command:
-
- MM>list | "print" 14 #sends message 14 to the
- shell command "print"
-
- For more help, type "help" and one of these topics:
- message-sequence literal print copy move other
- set dont-print-headers set only-print-headers
- set list-on-separate-pages set list-include-headers
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