[Ftnpl-develop] html bbs

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

Russ,


> I made more changes to pkt2txt. It now creates a sorted area list, and the
> pages have links to the previous and next message, as well as the message
> list and the area list. I think I'll need to rename this thing. It's not
> just making text files. :)

     I agree there are great possibiltitys;   but what needs to be done is
to split  it, rather than simply rename it...   Because I think pkt2txt.pl
still has possibilities by itself;   but I also agree that what seems to be
an html bbs has large possibilities also.

    So, pkt2txt gets's split to two different packages;    pkt2txt continues
on by itself, & the other package becomes the new package htmlbbs, or
something like that...

    It would be fairly easy to get it started too.   Either copy over your
existing pkt2txt working directory to another directory without that CVS
subdirectory, or simply remove that CVS subdirectory from it.   Rename the
pkt2txt* files to something like pkt2html* files, since this version of it
will emphasize the html output.   Then update the contents of the other
files as neccessary, referenceing the new name and/or purpose...

    Then you do an initial import of it, to scripts/htmlbbs, to start the
new package off.  Then do a  checkout of that, & continue on under the new
package name...


Jame