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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I think it's mrk not mkr?
>
> Also, is `recursively' right here?  For example, if I have a group
> nnml:foo and another group nnml:foo.bar, and if I want to archive the
> nnml:foo group, then I want to tar up all the files in ~/Mail/foo, but
> not the ~/Mail/foo/bar subdir.
>
> And finally, IMVHO the middle sentence looks a bit clumsy.  What do
> you think about something along the lines of the following, err,
> lines?
>
>     For `nnfolder' you need to copy both the base folder file itself
>     (FOO, say), and the marks file (FOO.mrk in this example).
>
> Of course, these are just nitpicks.  I like the section.

Thanks, I added your suggestions, and changed `recursively' into `copy
all files' or something like that.  Do you think it is better now?