Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ALMSA-1.ARPA!gaspar From: gaspar@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Al Gaspar) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: # signs Message-ID: <8812050909.ab12872@ICS.UCI.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 16:58:04 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 I just figured it out. If I rmm messages at the shell mh gets rid of them. However, I often scan my messages and pipe the output through less. If I enter '!rmm n', mh places a '#' sign in front of n. Apparently, mh knows that rmm is being invoked in a subshell or that message n is still being scanned. Cheers-- Al -- Al GasparUSAMC CSDA, ATTN: AMXAL-OW, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 263-5118 AUTOVON: 693-5118 uunet.uu.net!almsa-1.arpa!gaspar