Establishes a folder of messages that you can  affect  as  a  group.
  You  can  COPY or MOVE selected messages from one folder to another.
  Or, you can READ and DELETE, or  SEARCH  and  EXTRACT  a  folder  of
  messages.   After  you  SELECT a folder of messages, you can use the
  following commands to affect them:

       COPY
       DELETE
       DIRECTORY
       EXTRACT
       MOVE
       READ
       SEARCH

  You can also use the SELECT command  to  move  from  one  folder  to
  another.

  If you select a folder  that  does  not  exist,  MAIL  displays  the
  following message:


       %MAIL-E-NOTEXIST, folder folder-name does not exist



   Format:

       SELECT [folder-name]

Additional information available:

ParametersQualifiersExamples

 folder-name

  The name of the folder  to  be  selected.   If  no  folder  name  is
  specified, the current folder is selected.

Additional information available:

/BEFORE/NEW/SINCE

 /BEFORE=date

 Indicates that messages dated before the specified date be selected.

 /NEW

 Indicates that new (unread) messages be selected.  This qualifier can
  only be used with the MAIL file.

 /SINCE=date

 Indicates that messages dated after the specified date be selected.

  1.
       MAIL> DIRECTORY/FOLDERS

       MAIL               NEWMAIL
       WASTEBASKET

       MAIL> SELECT WASTEBASKET

       %MAIL-I-SELECTED, 3 messages selected

       MAIL> DIRECTORY

                                             WASTEBASKET
       #   From    Date             Subject

       1   GORK    19-APR-1985      Venus Fly Traps
       2   GORK    21-APR-1985      The Aloe
       3   BURT    22-APR-1985      Scales

  This example shows how to use the SELECT command to  move  from  the
  MAIL folder to the WASTEBASKET folder.

  2.
       MAIL> SELECT/BEFORE=12-APR-1985

       %MAIL-I-SELECTED, 2 messages selected

       MAIL> DIRECTORY

       #   From    Date             Subject

       1   MART    10-APR-1985      Food
       2   BART    11-APR-1985      Soup

  This example shows how to display all  the  mail  messages  received
  before April 12, 1985.

  3.
       MAIL> SELECT/NEW

  This example shows how to select all the new (unread) mail messages.
  Because  NEWMAIL  is  the  implied  folder  name, you do not need to
  specify a folder name.