BTW, thanks for the excellent description of how the Replies
folder works which you posted previously.
[...]
>There's something else I haven't tried that occurrred to me might
>be possible. Save replies you want to hold to a special folder,
>and delete them from the REPLIES folder. When you want to put
>the held replies back into the REPLIES folder, from DOS (before
>you run Yarn) rename the MAILED folder to something else, and
>rename the special folder to MAILED. Then run Yarn, and simply
>resend all the replies in the MAILED folder (the renamed special
>folder). Then when you exit Yarn, rename the folders back the
>way they were; next time you run Yarn, copy the replies you
>actually sent out (which will have been saved to the special
>folder while it was renamed MAILED) into the original MAILED
>folder and delete the special folder (this step isn't necessary
>unless you want your MAILED folder to be a complete record).
>
[...]
>And all of this is in terms of Yarn .79. I have no idea whether
>any of these kludges would work with later versions.
>
>I still think the easiest thing to do is flag the replies you
>want to hold by putting some searchable text in the reply itself
>or its subject heading, deleting it from the REPLIES folder, and
>then resending it later from the MAILED folder.
>
>(All "resend" means above is copying something into the REPLIES
>folder; it doesn't get actually *sent* until you upload the
>replies packet and run it through uqwk.)
I'm getting a little bit confused by the terms here. Replies
really isn't a folder; its a subdirectory as you pointed out
previously.
One can copy a folder (being a file) into the Replies
subdirectory and cause it to be named news or mail. Assuming the
folder file structures are identical and also that Yarn is not
relying on any other information then Yarn would create a packet
from these (news and mail) folder files.
I haven't tested it yet, but this would be an excellent solution
if it works.
--Steve Washam Walla Walla, Washington sew@televar.com