[WEB4LIB] Re: Automating a Directory Listing in a Web Page

Dan Lester dan at 84.com
Sun Nov 21 16:57:19 EST 1999


At 01:18 PM 11/20/99 -0800, Elizabeth Hamilton wrote:

>If your Web server is on a UNIX machine, you could have a Perl script written
>that reads the WP file names, places them in a variable and creates links out
>of them and saves the list within an HTML page called "index.html." The fact
>that they are in the same directory makes that easy.

You could of course do this on NT and other platforms, as well, with Perl.

dan

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