Heres a screen shot of a problem I'm having deleting ranges in mail

gabriella% mail
Mail version 5.5 6/1/90.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/banshee": 7 messages 4 new 7 unread
 U  1 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  12/292   "a"
 U  2 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  12/292   "a"
 U  3 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  21/540   "."
>N  4 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  10/280   "."
 N  5 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  10/280   "."
 N  6 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  10/280   "."
 N  7 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  10/280   "."
& d 1-2
& q
Held 5 messages in /var/mail/banshee
gabriella% mail
Mail version 5.5 6/1/90.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/banshee": 6 messages 1 new 6 unread
 U  1 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  21/540   "."
 U  2 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  11/290   "."
 U  3 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  11/290   "."
 U  4 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  11/290   "."
 U  5 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  21/554   "."
>N  6 banshee               Tue Apr 12 19:36  10/280   "."
&

looks like the write routines are going a bit whacko.  this is from current
source, supped monday morning.  compiled with -O and -ggdb

-john

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