Dear list,
is this of any interest to you?
It is not so much about bugs and programming, but form a "friend
user" point of view
Christof Lange
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>Von: CPC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Datum: Freitag, 20. Oktober 2000 21:01
>Betreff: dir2htm?
>
>
>>Please, sir, what is
>>
>>"dir2htm (c) Florian Xaver 2000"
>>
>>Is it an utility that converts an ordinary DOS directory to a HTML
>>page? And thus is this right the thing that has all the time been
>>missing in the Arachne programme packet? And are you who finally
>>wrote this tool willing to spread it within the Arachne fan club?
>>I would personally be very happy, because I need just this utility
>>for my intranet (saved files in HTML format sorted into an ordinary
>>DOS directory tree), but I am not able to write a working programme.
>>
>>With best regards
>>Christof Lange
>>
On 20 Oct 00 at 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Yes, it looks into the directory, and makes a list of all files (or only
>*.exe etc.). But I think, Arachne has also a tool:
>wwwman.
But this is an exe file. And lay people like me are not able to look
into or to change it. Why do I want to customize Arachne's directory
listing? Mainly two reasons:
1. There is this unfortunate link which is supposed to list the DOS
drive letters. I think it works well on DR-DOS. But my system (MS-DOS
7.10 / W98) immediately crashes, if I come too close to the link.
2. Time and again I save some HTML pages on my hard disk. Because I
work a lot with Norton Commander I decided to sort them according to
topics in a 8.3 directory structure. I am able to imagine meaningful
directory names, but the names of the files are too short to make
clear what is where. Arachne example files indicate the possibility
to write a GUI for local file searching. I had another idea: I would
be quite satisfied if the directory listing in Arachne could not only
list the file names, but also the text in the <Title>XXXXXXX</Title>
tag of each file. For this purpose I wrote a small utility in BASIC
(the only language I know). My "dir2htm.exe" can be called as a DGI
from Arachne. But I did not suceed to make that thing recursive
(obviously TurboBasic programmes do not produce standard output, but
I really do not know). The full function of the tool should be:
a) call dgi by function key (eg. Shift F2)
b) output is directory.ah that contains
- links to all htm files of the HD directory (terminate)
- and buttons which call dgi again with an argument for
subdirectories or upper directory (repeat a)
This is probably not exactly what you wrote. But I would be glad,
if I could play a bit with your programme.
>The feature is, that I can change the titel and it is compatible with all
>browsers.
>example:
>
>dir2htm "DOS file list" -f:*.* > index.htm
>
>makes such a list as on drdos.org.
>
>In the next day I will improve it a little bit. If you want I can upload it,
>or send it you.
>
>bye, florian
Please send it to me, do not upload it, because tonight I am going
to leave for a week.
With regards
Christof Lange
On 20 Oct 00 at 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi again!
>
>I improved the program very much! Here is the help:
>
>[DR-DOS] E:\SEALPAGE\NOVELL\DIR2HTM>dir2htm -?
>dir2htm - directory list generator
>(c) Florian Xaver
>=====================================================================
>===
>Unknown option ?
>directory list generator
>DIR2HTM [-t"titel"] [-ffile extension] [-sfile] [-e] [-h]
> -tfile file (.txt/.htm) which should be included
> -e shows extension of the file in the list
> -h file is a .htm file, else a .txt file
>
>I can send it you, if you want. When you test it, an think it is good
>enouph, I can make it public(freeware).
>
>Bye, florian
>www.seal.de.vu
>www.drdos.org
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