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From: jerryp@CMX.NPAC.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: unrmm command
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Date: 26 Jun 88 12:03:42 GMT
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I tend to "inc" a lot of single messages, handle them, them run "rmm"
right away.  So, lots of my messages overwrite each other (for example,
I "inc" message 123 -- then remove it, which makes it ",123" -- then soon
"inc" another message 123 -- then remove it, which blows away the previous
removed message ",123" -- and so on).

To fix this, I changed my "rmmproc:" to use a program I wrote called "temp".
Before it adds a comma to a filename, "temp" checks to see if the destination
file already exists.  If so, it adds enough commas to make a unique filename.
So, I end up with removed messages named ",123", ",,123", ",,,123", etc.
I also wrote an "unrmm" that checks to see if there's more than one removed
message with the same message number; if so, it shows you each message with
that number and asks if you want to restore that one; otherwise, it just
restores the single message.

If anyone wants copies of these, send me mail (personal -- no sense mailing to
the whole list, is there?) and I'll put together a shar file.

--Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY
  jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu
  +1 315 443-1722