Re: How to hack an .rc file to build an index.html file with first text lines of posts

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

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