[Ftnpl-develop] pkt2txt.pl

[Robert J. C. <rj...@ho...>]

Hi Russ!

> OK, I've got a good working copy now. I'm really going to be working on
the
> message counting stuff.

      You work on that (since I still haven't quite figured out how you're
doing it...<g>);  I want to fix/enhance the command line parameters for it,
by changing it over to useing the Getopt module...    I got it working on my
scripts, so I've had practise...<g>


>I'd like to at least get to a "read only" version  soon that writes web
pages.

      Oh, I agree;  that would be quite useful!   But it does bring up the
question of how to do that?   I see two main ways of doing it;  one way
would be to extend the existing pkt2txt.pl script once it's working, & the
other would be make a separate script once the pkt2txt.pl script is working
fairly well...

       My preference would be to make it a new script, starting off from the
working pkt2txt.pl script, & call it pkt2html.pl.    (And I would like to do
the initial import of it, if you don't mind...<g>)     Several reasons for
keeping 'em separate, but one main reason for me is I have a preference for
programs that does one well defined thing as well as possible...   True,
basically there isn't a lot of difference between outputting text &
outputting html;  but in actual usage there would be & I think that they
would develop in different ways...    For instance, I see the pkt2txt.pl
script as more of a diagnostic tool than as a production tool;  whereas
something like a pkt2html.pl script would definitly be a production tool...
And with different purposes, they would see different development...




Jame