messages to be archived are transferred to the memory of the secondary stationary receiver the portable unit 10 is first interfaced with the secondary or stationary unit as shown at 50 the interface may be a serial data interfaced as is commonly used to interface the motorola bravo display pager to its respective code plug programmer the message is then transmitted transferred to the secondary unit which searches for the archive flag bit as is shown at 52 and 54 if the flag bit is set the message will be stored in the memory 20 39 of the stationary unit 10 39 as will be described in connection with fig4 and the message will be automatically deleted from the memory 20 of the portable unit 10 as is shown at 56 in fig3 this process will continue for each message until all messages have been interrogated assuming that a user of the inventive selective call receiving system has incorporated into his vehicle a secondary stationary receiver 10 39 and wears on his person a portable receiver 10 it is not unlikely that portable receiver 10 will miss pages transmitted to the user when the user has left his vehicle due to its greater sensitivity however it is also highly probable that the pages missed by receiver 10 will be received and stored in the memory 20 39 of stationary receiver 10 39 upon the return of the user to his automobile the user may couple portable receiver 10 to stationary receiver 10 39 via the interface 24 which results in.