Re: Re: files.bbs to 00index.html?
  By: Alan Ianson to Eric Renfro on Tue Oct 20 2015 10:34 am

 AI> Eric Renfro wrote to All:

 ER>> Now that I have a dedicated binkd HUB system, I'm trying to come up
 ER>> with sane ways to make the fileechos available via ftp and http,
 ER>> since there's no actual BBS on the HUB itself, and I have no
 ER>> intentions of running a second BBS. :)

 AI> When I had Synchronet up and running I had htick tossing the files into
 AI> Synchronets file areas and then import the files.bbs with addfiles.

 AI> That relies on htick having access to your Synchronet directories though
 AI> and I don't know if that is so.

I still do that with my Synchronet BBS, I just use a jsexec script I wrote to
isolate it down to only file bases that actually exist in synchronet to keep
things clear and precise, and only directories with files.bbs in them. ;)

 ER>> I'm curious if anyone happends to know of any Linux utils to convert
 ER>> files.bbs files into 00index.html, off-hand. I know it's a bit of
 ER>> a long shot, but hey, I want to try, else I could likely write my
 ER>> own in bash or perl or python or ruby.. 

 AI> There were OS/2 files for this, I used to use them with Maximus but I
 AI> haven't seen anything like that for linux. If there isn't something like
 AI> that already it'd make a nice addition to the husky project though.. :)

Hmm, yeah, OS/2 wouldn't be much help here. My BBS, and my HUB, both run Linux,
CentOS 7 to be specific. :)

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