panos@CSRI.TORONTO.EDU (Panos Economopoulos) (02/22/90)
I would really appreciate some answers to the following questions.
1) To my understanding, a folder is a subdirectory equivalent to a news group,
so that if I say `nn -g +nn', I should be presented with all the
messages in the files in +nn. (The default folder directory is ~/News).
However, if I do this, I get an error message
(to the effect that +nn is not a folder). It seems that
I have to specify a ``filename'' rather than a directory.
If this is the case, then what is a folder, really, except being
a shorthand for a subdirectory with related message files?
The manual says that `nn -g +folder' can be specified, but what
does it do? I can't make it work.
Is there a way to access all messages saved in various files within
a directory?
2) Is there a way to make nn treat a mailbox (a file with saved mail messages)
like a nn-format file, so that it presents each mail message
separately? If I just do nn -g and then specify the mailbox filename
it presents me with just one article.
I went through the mail/nn manuals but I didn't find anything except
that I can make nn save messages in mail format (the reverse of what
I want). Did I miss something?
Thanks
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