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File conversion to HTML?

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The Question is:

 
Does The Wizard know of any spool file -> HTML conversion utilities
available? Or perhaps a DCL script in circ?
 
Thanks for your time,
 
Tim Johnston.
 

The Answer is :

 
  The particular desired conversion is not immediately certain from
  your question.  (Terse questions beget terse answers.  Answers that
  may not be to the question that you thought you were asking...)
 
  The Freeware V4.0 includes a tool that converts an ASCII file into
  HTML, and a seperate symbiont that prints files to the null device.
  Combining the two is left up to the reader.  (The Freeware V4.0 will
  be made available with the OpenVMS V7.2 release.)
 
  The basic conversion of ASCII to HTML is usually directly possible,
  adding a header and a footer to the file and the appropriate HTML
  pre and /pre tags.
 
  Extending an existing symbiont is also generally quite easy, and
  the same technique used to convert ASCII to HTML could certainly
  be used.
 
  The particulars of the reason for using a print symbiont for this
  conversion -- rather than a standalone tool -- as well as the
  mechanism for getting the converted output into a location where
  a webserver can access it -- are left up to the reader.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 7-DEC-1998 )
     
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