"Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dan Minette wrote:
> > I have to warn you that Mr. Bell is indeed dangerous.
>
> But I thought that Mr. Bell lived in/near Seattle WA ;-)
Yes, but just becaues I'm a Canadian (yikes!) living in the U.S. (boo!),
working for Microsoft (hiss!) doesn't mean I'm ev... oh, wait, yes it does.
...
In an unrelated tangent, does anyone with (1) a personal Linux box, (2) a
broadband connection and (3) a far too trusting personality want to lend me
a shell account for a few hours?
In my free time I've been poking around with a chunk of code, the eventual
purpose of which is to run on a server up in Canada and translate my
HTML-based FAQs into plain text for newsgroup posting on a regular basis.
The script that does this job uses Lynx right now but Lynx can't render
tables - which makes doing nicely formatted stuff rather frustrating. My
code implements HTML parsing and rendering with table support* and works
just duckily. Unfortunately, I'm developing it under Windows/VC++ and I have
no access to ye-old-shell and GCC to ensure that it'll compile on a
bare-bones UNIX system. My buddy up in Manitoba who runs the FAQ-posting
script's server isn't authorized to give me an account, and I'm loathe to
send him multiple code drops, asking "does this compile?"
So, anyone want to take pity on a poor lost soul like myself?
Joshua
* For those who care: it's fairly general purpose code but as I'm not
intending to use it for anything other than these HTML->TXT translations
it's not exacting to the W3C specs. It prefers XHTML as input but can handle
some HTML-isms like empty tags; table support is essentially HTML2.0; forms
are non-existent since it's non-interactive; and while it has no notion of
CSS its rendering is based on intrinsic CSS-like stylesheets for margins,
alignment and text transforms (most of the rest of CSS is inapplicable to
ASCII).
