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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 |
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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's |
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> > wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages |
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> > because it's not indexed. |
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> > So I started building a Perl script to create a top-level |
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> > HTML index page automatically from the .html files it |
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> > finds lying around. I started with just the contents of |
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> > /usr/share/doc. |
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> > Before I go too much farther, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows |
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> > of an existing product (that is surely more refined than |
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> > this little starter gizmo I've got so frar) that does the |
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> > same or similar thing? |
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> > If not, are there any other places where generally useful |
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> > HTML might be hiding? |
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> I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire |
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> filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching |
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> portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... |
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> Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document |
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> indexes... |
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I, for one, would be interested in seeing a copy of your script :-> |
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David |
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