Automating a Directory Listing in a Web Page

[Michael Sauers]

My original post was...

> > Here's what I want to to:
> >
> > Directory on a web server with a bunch of WordPerfect file.
> > I want to generate an index.html file that would read the directory,
> print
> > the directory listing and automatically hyperlink those filenames to the
> > actual WP files.

Several people suggested using Perl. Unfortunately, we knew that but aren't
sure how to go about it. Has anyone actually done this and would you be
willing to share your code? Thanks!

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