<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MHonArc Resources: RMM</title> </head> <body> <address> <a href="../resources.html#rmm">MHonArc Resource List</a> </address> <hr> <h1>RMM</h1> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Syntax</h2> <dl> <dt><strong>Envariable</strong><dt> <dd><p>N/A </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Element</strong><dt> <dd><p>N/A </p> </dd> <dt><strong>Command-line Option</strong><dt> <dd><p><br> <code>-rmm </code><var>msgnum</var> ...<br> <code>-rmm </code><var>msgnum</var><code>-</code><var>msgnum</var> ...<br> <code>-rmm </code><var>msg-id</var> ...<br> </p> </dd> </dl> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Description</h2> <p>The RMM resource is activated by the <tt>-rmm</tt> command-line option. When active, all non-option related arguments are treated as messages to delete from the archive. Messages can be specified by message numbers, message number ranges, or message-ids. Either methods can be used together. See <b>Examples</b> below. </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Default Setting</h2> <p>N/A </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Resource Variables</h2> <p>N/A </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>The following example specifies the messages to be deleted by individual message numbers. </p> <PRE> % <b>mhonarc -rmm 24 28 39 48</b> Removing messages from ./maillist.html ... Writing mail ... Writing tmp/maillist.html ... Writing tmp/threads.html ... 45 messages </PRE> <p>If we want to delete message 15 and message 20 through 35, the following can be used: </p> <PRE> % <b>mhonarc -rmm 15 20-35</b> </PRE> <p>In some cases, you may know the message-id of the message to delete and not the message number: </p> <PRE> % <b>mhonarc -rmm 199802171800.KAA27647@medusa.acs.uci.edu</b> </PRE> <p>You can surround message-ids with <tt><></tt>'s, but you then may need to quote the arguments to prevent the shell interpreting them as I/O redirection. </p> <p>The following example shows how you can intermingle the various ways of specifying messages: </p> <PRE> % <b>mhonarc -rmm 23-34 199802171800.KAA27647@medusa.acs.uci.edu 52</b> </PRE> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>Version</h2> <p>1.1.0 </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a href="outdir.html">OUTDIR</a>, <a href="scan.html">SCAN</a> </p> <!-- *************************************************************** --> <hr> <address> 00/10/28 11:13:08<br> <img align="top" src="../monicon.gif" alt=""> <a href="http://www.pobox.com/~ehood/mhonarc.html"><strong>MHonArc</strong></a><br> Copyright © 1997-1998, <a href="http://www.pobox.com/~ehood/">Earl Hood</a>, <a href="mailto:mhonarc@pobox.com">mhonarc@pobox.com</a><br> </address> </body> </html>