# HG changeset patch
# User markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
# Date 1342088838 -7200
# Node ID fead1fc981f0ee52e7df4e9e88d759e07a767864
# Parent  e0e49a8bfbe8f320d7f7e736a74106c168204652
Added note about the `a' message sequence.

diff -r e0e49a8bfbe8 -r fead1fc981f0 bib
--- a/bib	Thu Jul 12 11:50:32 2012 +0200
+++ b/bib	Thu Jul 12 12:27:18 2012 +0200
@@ -229,3 +229,28 @@
 %C New York
 %K saint exupery
 
+%A Jan Wolter
+%T DBM Hash Libraries
+%B Unix Incompatibility Notes
+%D 2000\(en2004
+%O \fU http://\:www.unixpapa.com/\:incnote/\:dbm.html
+
+%L MH-Memo
+%H The Original MH-Proposal Memorandum:
+%T The Next Message System
+%A Stock Gaines
+%A Norm Shapiro
+%I RAND Corporation
+%D Undated
+%O Unpublished but quoted in \fIRAND and the Information Evolution\fP
+by Willis H. Ware, 2008, p. 129\|ff.
+Also available online at \fUhttp://\:rand-mh.sourceforge.net/\:book/\:overall/\:hiofmh.html#TOMHP
+
+%T The Mail Handler
+%B RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes
+%A Willis H. Ware
+%D 2008
+%I RAND Corporation
+%P 128\(en137
+%O \s-1ISBN\s0: 978-0-8330-4513-3
+\fU http://\:www.rand.org/\:pubs/\:corporate_pubs/\:2008/\:RAND_CP537.pdf
diff -r e0e49a8bfbe8 -r fead1fc981f0 intro.roff
--- a/intro.roff	Thu Jul 12 11:50:32 2012 +0200
+++ b/intro.roff	Thu Jul 12 12:27:18 2012 +0200
@@ -111,11 +111,12 @@
 Messages are named by their numeric filename,
 but they can have symbolic names, as well.
 These are either one of six system-controlled position names
+and a shorthand for the range of all messages,
 or user-settable group names for arbitrary sets of messages.
 These names are called sequences.
 Automatically updated position names exist for the
-first, last, previous, next, current message, and
-for the number one beyond the last message.
+first, last, previous, next, current message, and for the number
+one beyond the last message.
 (In mmh, the names of these sequences are abbreviated to the
 first character.)
 User-definded sequences can be bound to the folder containing the
diff -r e0e49a8bfbe8 -r fead1fc981f0 web.bib
--- a/web.bib	Thu Jul 12 11:50:32 2012 +0200
+++ b/web.bib	Thu Jul 12 12:27:18 2012 +0200
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
-
-%L web:\|wolter
-%A Jan Wolter
-%T DBM Hash Libraries
-%B Unix Incompatibility Notes
-%D 2000\(en2004
-%O \fU http://\:www.unixpapa.com/\:incnote/\:dbm.html
 
 %L web:\|rickert
+%H Website of
 %T Neil Rickert's mh (nmh) scripts
 %O \fU http://\:faculty.cs.niu.edu/\:~rickert/\:mh/
 %K mhsign mhpgp
@@ -38,7 +32,7 @@
 %T sloccount
 %O \fU http://\:www.dwheeler.com/\:sloccount/ 
 
-%L web:\|wp-email
+%L web:\|email
 %T Email
 %A Wikipedia
 %O \fU http://\:en.wikipedia.org/\:wiki/\:Email 
@@ -83,13 +77,6 @@
 %O \fU http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/hiofmh.html
 %K website
 
-%L web:\|mh-proposal
-%T The Next Message System
-%A Stock Gaines
-%A Norm Shapiro
-%O \fU http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/hiofmh.html#TOMHP
-%K original mh proposal
-
 %L web:\|dwm
 %H Website of
 %T dwm