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Some questions about folders

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From: Panos Economopoulos
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 15:12
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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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-- Panos Economopoulos -- 

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