On September 27, 1999 at 14:03, Earl Hood wrote:
> > So I tried using <IDXSIZE>, but That didn't work very well.
> > Running the appended rcfile on seven messages, it produces an
> > RDF index page with 7 - 5 = 2 blank entries.
>
> This is a bug, and unfortunately, a tricky one to find a clean fix.
> Setting IDXSIZE less than MAXSIZE for a single page index will
> cause this problem. If you look closely, you will also notice that
> the listing references the wrong data also.
It looks like the bug fix is much easier than I was expecting.
I have attached patch to mhindex.pl
(SCCS ID: mhindex.pl 1.4 99/06/25 14:21:22), that hopefully fixes
the problem.
--ewh
*** mhindex.pl.org Mon Sep 27 15:15:21 1999
--- mhindex.pl Mon Sep 27 15:15:37 1999
***************
*** 69,81 ****
} else {
if ($IDXSIZE && (($i = ($#MListOrder+1) - $IDXSIZE) > 0)) {
if ($REVSORT) {
! splice(@MListOrder, $IDXSIZE);
} else {
! splice(@MListOrder, 0, $i);
}
}
$IDXPATHNAME = join($DIRSEP, $OUTDIR, $IDXNAME);
- *a = *MListOrder;
}
$PageSize = scalar(@a);
--- 69,80 ----
} else {
if ($IDXSIZE && (($i = ($#MListOrder+1) - $IDXSIZE) > 0)) {
if ($REVSORT) {
! @a = @MListOrder[0..($IDXSIZE-1)];
} else {
! @a = @MListOrder[$i..$#MListOrder];
}
}
$IDXPATHNAME = join($DIRSEP, $OUTDIR, $IDXNAME);
}
$PageSize = scalar(@a);
