On April 21, 1998 at 22:46, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Has anyone tried this? I'd like to be able to pull out and possibly
manipulate data in the mhonarc databases, so I can generate things like
on-the-fly HTMLized digests (one thing I'd like to offer users is the
ability to be e-mailed a Table of Contents, and then they'd could click
on URLs to bring up articles that intereset them. since I've already
got the articles in mhonarc, extending it seems like a perfect thing --
but I need to be able to programmatically get, say,
"subject/author/URL" for all messages posted in the last "N" seconds
(or minutes, or hours. Basically, since a previous timestamp). then
format and mail the ToC.
You may want to look at the GENIDX resource and IDXSIZE resource.
You can have an index created that shows the last X messages (not
as good a last N seconds, but may be adequate). With a custom
resource file, you can get what you want. Example invocation:
mhonarc -rcfile digest.rc -genidx -idxsize 50 -sort -outdir /some/path
will create an index to stdout with the last 50 messages of /some/path
using the formatting specified in digest.rc.
To get the proper links/urls in the output, make sure digest.rc
redefines the proper resources (eg LITEMPLATE) to use absolute URLs
since the page will be sent out in email. Or, just define the <BASE>
(via the IDXPGBEGIN resource) element in the page so all relative URLs
will get resolved properly (probably the better approach).
--ewh
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