[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Does the suborder preference work?

jis@mtgzx.att.com (02/06/90)

I have set suborder in my ~/.preferences file as follows:

	suborder:mail:pcs*:SUN*:*andrew*:*

and yet when AMS displays my list of subscribed folders it always
displays them in the order:

SUN.managers
mail
info-andrew
sun-spots
andrew.ams
pcs.misc
pcs.test

Shouldn't the suborder specification cause the order to be

mail
pcs.misc
pcs.test
SUN.managers
info-andrew
andrew.ams
sun-spots

What gives?

                            Jishnu Mukerji,  
                           jis@mtgzx.att.com, 
                           +1 201 957 5986,  
                        AT&T Bell Laboratories, 
                      MT 3K-423, 200 Laurel Ave., 
                           Middletown NJ 07748

Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (02/06/90)

No problem.  You misspelled the preference.  Instead of
	suborder:mail:pcs*:SUN*:*andrew*:*
use
	*.subsorder: mail:pcs*:SUN*:*andrew*:*

Note both the suborder -> subsorder change and the leading ``*.'' on the
preference name.  The first change is necessary; I'm unsure about the
second.

		Craig