Re: Message `unexists'

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:


> I've seen the unlikely statement `message unexists' turn up in these
> circumstances:
> 
> In agent mode  Select an undownloaded message and put the download
> (%) mark on it.  Close group go plugged and press `J u' on that group.
> To down load the wanted message.
> 
> Go unplugged again and open group, then try to open the message in
> question.
> 
> That `unexists' message pops up.   I've found if I open a different
> message then come back to the newly downloaded one, something is
> cleared somewhere and the message opens.
> 
> This time I have a particularly stubborn case where the above proceedure
> still won't open the message, and I continue to get the `unexits' message.
> 
> Repeated attempts at marking for download, downloading with `J u'
> opening various messages then the questionable one, and I still get:
> 
> `Message unexists'   What does that unlikely statement really mean anyway.

After `J u', does the file exist in the agent directory? What is the
article entry in .agentview ?

Shenghuo