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From: Ted Davis 
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Subject: Re: RenDateTime.bat
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:30:26 -0500
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:04:24 +0100, Luuk wrote:

> FileGod schreef:
>> 
>>  Has anyone ever wrote a DIR2HTML.bat before?, I did not find one so I
>>  am
>> thinking about doing one...
>> 
>> http://www.filegod.netfirms.com
>> 
>> 
> most webservers do a great job on doing this 'on te fly' see (i.e.)
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/ which shows all files in the bussys
> directory of a certain server.
> 
> so, i dont see the point in creating a html-file of the contents of a
> directory...

I do, and did.  If the default file exists, the server will return it
instead of the directory listing.

The usual way of doing this is with a CGI or perhaps PHP script.  I wrote
one in gawk and PHP.  Batch files and servers don't get along too well
(except maybe IIS, which is itself as risky as enabling batch files for
CGI).

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T.E.D. (tdavis@mst.edu)