I found unrtf, but it doesn't support lines with a bunch of spaces in them, delimiting columns. It turned my allfiles.txt (a bunch of files.bbs files concatenated) into a mess. Is there a command line I can use to do this
under windows that will look right?

Thanks!

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I found unrtf, but it doesn't support lines with a bunch of spaces in them, delimiting columns. It turned my allfiles.txt (a bunch of
files.bbs files concatenated) into a mess. Is there a command line
I can use to do this under windows that will look right?

Thanks!

I just used a batch file with:

elefile filelist c:\ele\download\allfiles.txt 3-255
echo ^<pre^> > \\shurato\htdocs\allfiles.html
type c:\ele\download\allfiles.txt >> \\shurato\htdocs\allfiles.html
echo ^</pre^> >> \\shurato\htdocs\allfiles.html

It's not beautiful, but it works and I learned how to pass < and > in the command line!

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To: Shurato
Re: TXT to HTML...
By: Shurato to All on Thu Dec 07 2023 01:03 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

I found unrtf, but it doesn't support lines with a bunch of spaces in them, delimiting columns. It turned my allfiles.txt (a bunch of files.bbs files concatenated) into a mess. Is there a command line I can use to do this under windows that will look right?

Thanks!

what are you attempting to do EXACTLY?
file listings with html links?

if you are just wanting to show your files.bbs online put <pre>
at the top of the file.
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To: Shurato
Re: TXT to HTML... By: Shurato to All on Thu Dec 07 2023 01:03 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

I found unrtf, but it doesn't support lines with a bunch of spaces in

them,

delimiting columns. It turned my allfiles.txt (a bunch of files.bbs

files

concatenated) into a mess. Is there a command line I can use to do

this

under windows that will look right?

Thanks!

what are you attempting to do EXACTLY? file listings with html links?

if you are just wanting to show your files.bbs online put <pre> at
the top of the file.

Thanks, I did that.

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concatenated) into a mess. Is there a command line I can use to do
under windows that will look right?

I use a shareware program I've used for years. Detagger bu jafsoft. www.jafsoft.com/detagger

It's on the pricy side at $30USD but I've gotten that out of it in the
god knows how long I've had it.

|09S|11hawn


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Hello Shurato,

Answering a msg of <Thursday December 07 2023>, from you to you:

There is a great util called BBS2HTML (which is open source) that will convert your FILES.BBS files to HTML.

-- Sean

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Hello Shurato,

Answering a msg of <Thursday December 07 2023>, from you to you:

There is a great util called BBS2HTML (which is open source) that will convert your FILES.BBS files to HTML.

Ok, I found v 1.0 and an os/2 version. I'm running Win32 and the dos version created a date and size entry for each line of the diz file description. I'm pretty sure this is more than what I was looking for, and would be a really good addition to my services. Is there a more functional version? I didn't have any luck finding binaries of the newer source and am not confident
enough to build my own unless there are complete instructions for idiots
(like when I compiled websockify for python).

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Hello Shurato,

Answering a msg of <Thursday December 07 2023>, from you to you:

There is a great util called BBS2HTML (which is open source) that will convert your FILES.BBS files to HTML.

Found the binaries! It works great, thanks!

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The version you have is not the one I have. The one I have has binaries for DOS, OS/2 and Win32 IIRC and has the Pascal source in it. I've not used it myself since the BBS software I've used usually had a dedicated utility for
it that can do fILES.BBS -> HTML. I'm sorry I can't be of more help.

--Sean

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Found the binaries! It works great, thanks!

Excellent! Glad it works for you.

-- Sean

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The version you have is not the one I have. The one I have has binaries for DOS, OS/2 and Win32 IIRC and has the Pascal source in it. I've
not used it myself since the BBS software I've used usually had a dedicated utility for it that can do fILES.BBS -> HTML. I'm sorry
I can't be of more help.

Yeah, EleBBS has elefile htmlist, but I'm missing fdbhtml.elm... Martin Ruzicka of Aleco Experience is trying to get me the .pas source code, which I can compile with elexer. Using BBS2HTML (at least the win32 version) I couldn't get it to prepend a directory name to the file names as it's supposed to, but I worked around that with sed. Thanks for the solution!

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Hello Shurato,

Thursday December 07 2023 18:19, you wrote to me:

Yeah, EleBBS has elefile htmlist, but I'm missing fdbhtml.elm...

Talk to Andrew as he runs (and can compile from source) EleBBS

-- Sean

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Hello Sean!

07 Dec 23 20:46, you wrote to Shurato:

Thursday December 07 2023 18:19, you wrote to me:

Yeah, EleBBS has elefile htmlist, but I'm missing fdbhtml.elm...

Talk to Andrew as he runs (and can compile from source) EleBBS

I've actually switched full time to ProBoard on the OS/2 system now, but I do still have my EleBBS install that I refer to from time to time. I would have to reinstall VP if I wanted to try building EleBBS again, which I may do sometime as I have a couple of bugs to hunt down. EleFile Filelist locks up if it tries listing an area with no entries in the file database, plus the <S> key to abort a textfile doesn't work if it's doing the wait 1 second on a ^W character.

So many projects; so little time...

Andrew

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Andrew Leary wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

So many projects; so little time...

Boy, don't I know the feeling...

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