Quick and dirty Freepascal program to make HTML files from FILES.BBS 
directories.

program makehtml;
uses sysutils,dos;

var p,w : string;
dirinfo : SearchRec;
ft : tdatetime;
h,t,t2 : text;
const df = 'mm"/"dd"/"yyyy';

procedure make_html(what : string ; ts,si : longint);
var sz,d,ds,b : string;
begin
 d:='';
 assign(t,p+'files.bbs';
 (*$I-*) reset(t);
 if ioresult=0 then
  begin
   while not eof(t) and (d='' do
    begin
     readln(t,w);
     if (pos(uppercase(what),uppercase(w))>0) then 
d:=copy(w,length(what)+2,length(w));
    end;
   close(t);
  end;
 if (uppercase(paramstr(4))<>'N' and (uppercase(what)<>'FILES.BBS'  then
  begin
   ft:=FileDateToDateTime(ts);ds:=FormatDateTime(df,ft);
   if si>1024 then begin b:='k';si:=si div 1024; end else b:='b';
   str(si:1,sz);
   writeln(h,'<tr><td><a 
href='+paramstr(3)+what+'>'+what+'</a></td><td>'+ds+'</td><td>'+sz+b+'</td><td
>'+d+'</td></tr>';
   writeln('Added '+what+' '+ds+' '+sz+b+' '+d);
  end;
end;

begin
  writeln('MakeHTML 1.1/Win32 Copyright (c) by Nick J. Andre, Ltd.';
  writeln;
  if (paramstr(1)>'' and (paramstr(2)>'' and (paramstr(3)>'' then
   begin
    p:=paramstr(2);if p[length(p)]<>'\' then p:=p+'\';
    assign(h,paramstr(1));
    (*$I-*) rewrite(h);
    writeln(h,'<th>File</th><th>Date</th><th>Size</th><th>Description</th>';
    assign(t2,'makehtml.---';
    (*$I-*) reset(t2);
    if ioresult=0 then
     begin
      while not eof(t2) do
       begin
        readln(t2,w);
        findfirst(p+w,archive,dirinfo);
        if DOSerror=0 then make_html(dirinfo.name,dirinfo.time,dirinfo.size);
        findclose(dirinfo);
       end;
      close(t2);
     end
     else
     begin
      findfirst(p+'*.*',archive,dirinfo);
      if DOSerror=0 then make_html(dirinfo.name,dirinfo.time,dirinfo.size);
      while (DOSerror=0) do
       begin
        findnext(dirinfo);
        make_html(dirinfo.name,dirinfo.time,dirinfo.size);
       end;
      findclose(dirinfo);
     end;
    writeln(h,'</table>';close(h);
   end
   else
   begin
    writeln('Usage: MAKEHTML [Html table file] [Path] [Base] [BBS]';writeln;
    writeln('MAKEHTML creates an HTML table from files in Path using Base.';
    writeln('Optional BBS means include listing files.bbs, [Y]es or [N]o.';
   end;
end.

Nick

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