MHonArc Resources: SCAN

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# 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 want always to 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

1.0

## See Also

OUTDIR, REVERSE, SORT, SUBSORT