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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Seems like I should know how to do this, but I don’t. And my attempts
> to search for an answer weren’t fruitful.
>
> Suppose I have a bunch of messages in a summary buffer, for example,
> the results of a gnus-group-make-nnir-group doing a search.
>
> I expected to be able to process mark them all and then save them all
> as a single mail file of some sort. But the various things I tried
> either didn’t work or prompted me for the filename over and over
> again.
>
> Anyone got a spare clue?

Does doing `Ctrl-o'  then after the first prompt for filename, just hold
down the <ENTER> key, not work?