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From: forys@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Sorting messages by Date and Subject?
Message-ID: <6848@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 88 07:25:27 GMT
Reply-To: forys@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Has anyone written a script to sort messages by Date and Subject?
Sortm(1) appears to only handle date sorts, which would be the first
thing to do.  However, after that, I'd like something to go thru and
resort the messages based on their subjects (e.g. "X", "Re: X", ...)
and still maintain the chronological order for each new subject.

If no one has done this, and I didnt miss the existing MH tool, I'll
write one using the existing UNIX tools when I get the time.  I'd
rather not recreate the wheel tho...

Please respond thru mail; if there's enough interest, I'll summarize.

Thanks,
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Jeff Forys @ UC/Boulder Engineering Research Comp Cntr (303-492-4991)
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