SCAN

Syntax

Envariable
: N/A
Element
: N/A
Command-line Option
: -scan

Description

When SCAN is specified, a text listing of the contents of the archive are outputed to standard out. Messages are listed in the order defined for the main index.

Default Setting

N/A

Resource Variables

N/A

Examples

The following example generates an output in the order defined in the database of the archive:

% mhonarc -scan -outdir /home/ehood/html/archive
Reading database ...
117 messages in /home/ehood/html/archive:
 
Msg #  YYYY/MM/DD  From             Subject                                    
-----  ----------  ---------------  -------------------------------------------
   62  1996/07/30  Kwin Kramer      Reading STDIN not from keyboard -- or, Syst
   23  1996/07/31  Christopher M.   Re: Setting @INC to include my own modules 
    9  1996/08/01  Dan Kirkwood     object as hash key loses methods           
    2  1996/08/01  James F'jord Ly  Re: We're HIRING hot hackers!              
    1  1996/08/01  Christopher Cha  Curious Multi-Dimensional array behavior   
   14  1996/08/01  I R A Aggie      Re: Patch for arithmetic bug in 5.003 ?    
    3  1996/08/01  Bernard Bellon   Re: How do you grab a URL in perl?         
   38  1996/08/01  Mohammed Dewan   Help needed badly win3.1 and perl.         
   59  1996/08/01  Mohammed Dewan   Using file in perl.                        
    4  1996/08/01  Dan Gildor       Re: Threaded Discusion groups embeded in We
    5  1996/08/01  kendall shaw     addicted to emacs lisp                     
    6  1996/08/01  Ye He            Q: Sybase extension to Perl                
   83  1996/08/01  I R A Aggie      Re: Browser/Page matching CGI script       
    7  1996/08/01  Chris Schleiche  Re: Simple program looks good, but gives er
   13  1996/08/01  Steve McCullagh  Perl 5.002 and $| errors                   
...

If you to always get a listing that shows messages by number, use somthing like the following:

% mhonarc -scan -noreverse -nosort -outdir /home/ehood/html/archive
Reading database ...
117 messages in /home/ehood/html/archive:
 
Msg #  YYYY/MM/DD  From             Subject                                    
-----  ----------  ---------------  -------------------------------------------
    0  1996/08/02  Markus Spring    How to build a stack of associative arrays?
    1  1996/08/01  Christopher Cha  Curious Multi-Dimensional array behavior   
    2  1996/08/01  James F'jord Ly  Re: We're HIRING hot hackers!              
    3  1996/08/01  Bernard Bellon   Re: How do you grab a URL in perl?         
    4  1996/08/01  Dan Gildor       Re: Threaded Discusion groups embeded in We
    5  1996/08/01  kendall shaw     addicted to emacs lisp                     
    6  1996/08/01  Ye He            Q: Sybase extension to Perl                
    7  1996/08/01  Chris Schleiche  Re: Simple program looks good, but gives er
    8  1996/08/02  Paul             Re: Eric Herrmann's Sams.Net Teach Yourself
    9  1996/08/01  Dan Kirkwood     object as hash key loses methods           
   10  1996/08/02  Mike Stok        Re: I cannot rename files using rename.  I 
   11  1996/08/02  Elisabeth Freem  Re: current working directory              
   12  1996/08/02  Søren Maagaard   Re: Make an entire site searchable         
   13  1996/08/01  Steve McCullagh  Perl 5.002 and $| errors                   
   14  1996/08/01  I R A Aggie      Re: Patch for arithmetic bug in 5.003 ?    
   15  1996/08/02  Mike Stok        Re: More on -w  (was Re: Is this a known bu
...

Version

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