Re: So, are Tom Fine's archives ever going to work again?

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Dave Schweisguth (dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:19:23 -0500 (EST)

Larry sez:
> I have been experimenting with txt2html.pl. I can get most of the
> hypertexting that was being done by the daemons using this. The only
> thing I haven't figured out yet (and have had no time to work on) is
> how to get the indexes at the beginning of a FAQ to point internally
> to the place holders. That may be beyond the Perl script's abilities
> at this point without some heavy duty Perl hacking.

I reached the same conclusion and am writing my own. It'll read RFC822 and
write either a single HTML file or one file/FAQ entry. It'll be done in the
next month and I'll post it here. I'm probably willing to add a few features
I won't use myself if others really want to use it for their own FAQs.

Cheers,

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