On December 4, 2000 at 21:02, Gerry Hickman wrote: > > It will be nice if we will be able to build index.html files of last 24 hou > rs which > > will include in addition to subjects, senders, and date, also the first > > few lines of text of each post. > > I don't think you can do this at the archiving stage with an rc file, > but you could do it "post archive" by parsing the most recent messages. > Maybe first build an array of files with date/time stamp under 24 hours, > then parse each file in the array stopping after the second \n in the > body of the message, then return those results to the browser > hyperlinked to the "real" messages. I'd use the MODTIME resource to help facilitate this. This causes the message files to have a modify time that matches the date of the message. This makes it easy to determine which files represent messages from the past 24 hours. --ewh
