From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles
Date: 13 Aug 1998 21:04:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glmaf58v0fp.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "12 Aug 1998 14:59:48 -0700"
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Having moved some 900 messages out of a ding-list group, leaving some
> 300 in there. The number of articles displayed is still 1200
> somehting.
Hm. The first thing to note is that the number in the *Group* buffer
is not the number of articles in the group. It is the numeric
difference between the highest and lowest numbered articles in the
group. Iff all of your articles are contiguously numbered, then this
is the "number of articles". Otherwise, it isn't
> Tried the same sequence again now it shows 1645 -- I'm either getting
> a lot of mail awful quick or something is wacky.
Nothing is wacky. You have a low-numbered article that isn't being
moved, for whatever reason.
> Everytime I try to redo the numbering with moving technique, the
> number displayed increases by the 200+ that are still there.
Yep.
> Also a quick line count of the files in ~/Mail/ding-mail/* from
> 'dired' shows 217 files. The displayed count is now up to 1651.
Right, but what are the lowest and highest-numbered files?
> I've used the 'moving to same group' technique before on other groups
> successfully so having a bit of trouble seeing what is different here.
Looking at the files in the directory (and the active file) will tell
you for certain.
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-14 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-12 21:59 Harry Putnam
1998-08-12 22:25 ` Francisco Solsona
1998-08-12 22:53 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 3:22 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 3:42 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 4:21 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 5:13 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 6:57 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 7:39 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 8:16 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 15:51 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-14 2:38 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 10:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-14 1:04 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
1998-08-14 5:10 ` Harry Putnam
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