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<h1>SCAN</h1>
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<h2>Syntax</h2>
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<dt><strong>Envariable</strong></dt>
<dd><p>N/A
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<dt><strong>Element</strong></dt>
<dd><p>N/A
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<dt><strong>Command-line Option</strong></dt>
<dd><p>
<code>-scan
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<h2>Description</h2>
<p>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.
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<h2>Default Setting</h2>
<p>N/A
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<h2>Resource Variables</h2>
<p>N/A
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<h2>Examples</h2>
<p>The following example generates an output in the order
defined in the database of the archive:
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% <b>mhonarc -scan -outdir /home/ehood/html/archive</b>
Reading database ...
117 messages in /home/ehood/html/archive:
Msg # YYYY/MM/DD From Subject
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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
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<p>If you want always to get a listing that shows messages by number,
use somthing like the following:
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% <b>mhonarc -scan -noreverse -nosort -outdir /home/ehood/html/archive</b>
Reading database ...
117 messages in /home/ehood/html/archive:
Msg # YYYY/MM/DD From Subject
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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
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<h2>Version</h2>
<p>1.0
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<h2>See Also</h2>
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<a href="outdir.html">OUTDIR</a>,
<a href="reverse.html">REVERSE</a>,
<a href="sort.html">SORT</a>,
<a href="subsort.html">SUBSORT</a>
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