On September 27, 1998 at 15:51, Jerry Preeper wrote:

> I have recently installed MHonArc 2.3.0beta
...
> I am having a problem however with author sorting.  The subjects on the
> author.html page created by MHonArc are not linked to the correct messages.
>  For example, listed under author1, I have a message subject that is
> actually from author2, but the link to this message is to a message by
> author1.  Also, author2's name doesn't show up anywhere on the page.

The problem occurs for when the index is generated via OTHERINDEXES.
The bug is verified against v2.3.0 beta. The following is a patch
for mhindex.pl for v2.3.0 beta:

*** mhindex.pl.org      Tue Aug 11 00:18:11 1998
--- mhindex.pl  Wed Sep 30 15:24:36 1998
***************
*** 41,48 ****
      &compute_page_total();
      $PageNum    = $onlypg || 1;
      $totalpgs   = $onlypg || $NumOfPages;
!     @MListOrder = &sort_messages()  unless scalar(@MListOrder);
!     @Index2MLoc{@MListOrder} = (0 .. $#MListOrder)  unless scalar(%Index2MLoc);
  
      for ( ; $PageNum <= $totalpgs; ++$PageNum) {
        next  if $PageNum < $IdxMinPg;
--- 41,51 ----
      &compute_page_total();
      $PageNum    = $onlypg || 1;
      $totalpgs   = $onlypg || $NumOfPages;
!     if (!scalar(@MListOrder)) {
!       @MListOrder = &sort_messages();
!       %Index2MLoc = ();
!       @Index2MLoc{@MListOrder} = (0 .. $#MListOrder);
!     }
  
      for ( ; $PageNum <= $totalpgs; ++$PageNum) {
        next  if $PageNum < $IdxMinPg;

        --ewh

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