>>>>We've got an application (FPD 2.6) that displays various text files. We want to move this to the Internet, but we need something that will dynamically build the Web page from a text file. Anything out there like that?
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>>>Dorris,
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>>>If your application already builds text files, you have very little work to convert the routine to one that creates HTML files. All you need to do is insert some basic HTML tags and change the output file extension to .HTM, you can add formatting later as you get up to speed. I would recommend just getting a basic HTML reference, such as Queue's "Using HTML".
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>>>I'll Email you some other notes that are not allowed here, since you cannot embed HTML into these messages.
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>>>-- Randy
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>>Conversion needs to be behind the scene. The files begin as WordPerfect files and are converted to .txt files so that they may be accessed from DOS apps. We need to be able to take the .txt and have the CGI do the conversion to create the Dynamic Web page.
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>Since the Wordperfect files should have the best formatting codes, don't you want to convert from Wordperfect to HTML? Current versions of Wordperfect are supposed to have the ability to output HTML and I suspect that there are utilities for older versions. Check in the Universal Thread Corel Applications Forum for someone who can give you specifics.

you may want to look at the foxisapi samples in vfp. You need to run them on an nt based webserver running IIS. Look at the west-wind tech website. You can store your text files in memo fields and have the system do all your work for you. Only drawback is finding an isp who will let you hang an nt server on their network, this is getting easier by the day. hth B