The following are utility programs that I have written that work under MS/DOS. Note that there are several HTML related programs.

HTMIDX

HTMIDX will generate an HTML file that contains an annotated listing of selected files contained in a directory (folder). It is oriented towards documenting a page that contains a collection of files, like MIDI files that have text files documenting them.

HTMIDX will extract (and format) the TITLE from HTML files, the first few lines of text from text files, and the title and other textual information contained in MIDI files. The textual information will be converted to valid HTML and any URLs will automatically be converted to clickable <A HREF> tags.

For an example of a web page created entirely with HTMIDX, go to http://www.netheaven.com/~wlarmon/midi/a_htmtab.htm and View/Source. A_htmtab.htm was entirely created by typing HTMMID at the C:\ prompt in the directory containing all of these files. (HTMMID.BAT is a batch file that specifies a few more file types than what HTMIDX defaults to.)

HTMIDX is freeware, with no time-limited nagging. You need htmidx.zip (38k 4/10/97) and brun45.zip (54k). The documentation is htmidx.htm.

Other Web Development Helpers

FILTER will fix assorted problems with ASCII text files, such as downloaded files being displayed as double spaced (like those downloaded from Project Gutenberg). You need filter.zip (18k 10/5/96). The documentation is filter.txt.

Wrap is designed to "wrap" long lines of text. Some text editors leave each paragraph as one long line. This causes problems when such a text file is displayed, say in NetScape, because the lines extend off the side of the screen. Wrap will read the file and write out a new one with the long lines word-wrapped. I found that I had to do this when I was preparing text files for my MIDI collection. You need wrap.zip (5k 3/19/97) and brun45.zip (54k). New!

(WS_FTP is an excellent FTP file transfer program. You can obtain it from John Junod's home page.)

CP and D are file command line copying and directory listing programs similar to the MS/DOS COPY and DIR programs, but with more capabilities. Type CP or D at the MS/DOS prompt to see the command options. These programs are contained in welsupp.zip. The documentation is welsup.txt.

The reason for splitting these programs up into several ZIP files is so that I can update the main programs without making you download the whole damn thing, like, say, NetScape does when distributing minor updates.

All of these files are contained in http://www.netheaven.com/~wlarmon/msdos/msdos.htm

The following was created with HTMIDX: (By typing HTMIDX *.HTM *.TXT *.MID -E.)

File             Title                         6 Files

msdos.htm        Wayne Larmon's MSDOS Utility Programs 4837 Bytes
txt2html.htm     TXT2HTML 1.00 05/01/96 2806 Bytes
filter.txt       FILTER Does assorted fixes to ASCII files FILTER is designed
                 to fix common problems with ASCII text files such as files
                 that are prepared on another computer platf... 1668 Bytes
htmidx.txt       HTMIDX.EXE 1.14 09/26/96 HTMIDX is an MSDOS program that makes
                 an HTML index file of all the HTML files in the current
                 directory. The resulting HTML index file w... 2674 Bytes
txt2html.txt     TXT2HTML 1.00 05/01/96 TXT2HTML is an MSDOS program that
                 converts ASCII text files to HTML files. Files to be converted
                 are typically documentation files with parag... 2719 Bytes
vbdir.txt        VBDIR Visual File Manager VBDIR is a utility program that
                 provides an easy way for basic file management, like copying,
                 renaming, etc. It shows two drive/directory/... 2010 Bytes

Source code may be available by request.

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Updated 4/10/97.