Re: reversing order of long archive

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 31, 2002 at 11:10, "Christopher A. Adams" wrote:

> I have an archive of about 500 messages that were written in the default
> mode of oldest first, newest last. I know how to reverse this for future
> messages, but I am wondering if there is a way to do a batch reverse on
> this archive to put the newest ones first?

Once you apply the resources to change the index ordering, the next
new message will cause the index to reflect the new ordering.

If you want the change to happen before a new message is added,
use the -editidx option on the archive along with your new settings.

--ewh