On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:02:19 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:31:22 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> Hi Greg, >> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:00:23 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: >>> Hi List! >>> Is there any way of telling Arachne _not_ to sort the outbox by date of >>> last ammendment, and to leave the messages in the order they were >>> originally written? >> The only obvious way is to "amend" them in the order you want them to >> be listed - even if some "amends" do not include any actual change. > Yes, I'd have to modify every message as it appears in the #1 slot, > until I'd gone through the lot. >> They appear to be listed in file number sequence, and the file name >> given by Arachne is chronologically sequential. > Agreed, that seems to be the way it works. > I wonder why Arachne writes the modified version as a new message, > rather than just saving it under the original name. For the same reason that *any* file we modify and then save to disk gets 're-dated'. ;-) It is not writing it as a 'new message'. It's doing the same thing that is done with *all* computer files. And that is to set its "time-stamp" to current date/time when the modified file is saved to disk. If you would like it to keep original date/time..... Don't modify it. ;-) Just kidding around. I'll look into makeing a slight modification in the code so that we can have the option of doing just that. Let's say... a new Arachne.cfg value. KeepDate Yes Will default to 'No' if that line is not present in arachne.cfg -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/
