Hi,
I just recently became convert to MHonArc-ism. What a great program!!!
I've noticed a couple of quirks that I wanted to point out as potential
bugs/solutions and have some of questions as well.
I'm using MHonArc 2.2.0 under WinNT 4.0 with Perl 5.003_07. I have
patched the mhamain.pl times lines with the eval {..}; fix. However, I
found that the "times not implemented" message would occationtially
show up again. These seemed to be caused by a couple of different
things (at least the message went away afterwards).
The first time I saw this was when I had an OTHERINDEXES resource file
that had a <TIDXFNAME> but no matching </TIDXFNAME>. The second time I
saw it was when I was doing a -editidx run and the -outdir was not
pointing to the document directory. So, if your getting the "times not
implemented" message, check your syntax!
A quick look at the code seemed to indicate that the "times" lines could
be moved into the if ( $TIME ) { block below it without effecting the
MHonArc operation. Is this another valid fix/improved fix for this
problem or would it break the code?
Also, I do not seem to be able to generate a reverse thread index via a
normal -archive or -add run. The reverse thread is the same as the
forward thread. I have to do a -editidx run to get a properly ordered
reverse thread index. Is this normal, a problem with my .rc files, or
what?
Finally, does MHonArc have a $???$ variable that contains the name of
the SOURCE file being used for the message content? I would like to be
able to set up a link back to an original source. I can do this by
generating the archive via a series of -add commands that have a
-definevar statement on them but it is MUCH slower than a bulk -archive
create. Also, the -editidx fix for creating a reverse thread index
breaks this when the msg files are re-written.
TIA.
Greg
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