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From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: Xmh problems on SPARCstation 1+
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Date: 13 Apr 91 15:31:00 GMT
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In message <9104121232.aa07421@ICS.UCI.EDU>, Alan Thew <qq11@uxb.liverpool.ac.UK> wrote:
> I normally run scan with my own formfile when running within a shell.
> Although xmh displayed the ouput correctly, the "view next message" and
> "view previous" commands along with using the mouse to select and read
> tended to fail because it tried to read a non-existent file (file 0).
> Once I used the default scan form file, all was OK.

xmh reads the message number from the scan form file output (stored in its
".xmhcache" file for the folder).  Does your form file put the message
number in the same columns and same format as the default scan format?
If it doesn't, try fixing yours and see if that helps.

Section 15.6 of the MH & xmh Nutshell Handbook is about changing the
Table of Contents format.

--Jerry Peek, O'Reilly & Associates Inc. -- jerry@ora.com, uunet!ora!jerry