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[VANILLA-L:369] Re: .motd to html?



On Tuesday, December 31, 1996 6:41 AM, Alec
Habig[SMTP:habig@budoe.bu.edu] wrote:
>>Bob Tanner writes :
>>> 
>>> I guess Real Time needs to move out of the farm-league and into the
>>>minors.
>>> What does that mean? Well, the users are no longer satisfied with stats on
>>> the motd. I have been field requests for about a month to have the stats
>>>on
>>> some sort of web page. So... are there any utilities to convert the .motd
>>> stats to html?
>>
>>For bigbang, I simply had some cron jobs which made text outputs of
>>various scores.  I didn't put in any html, though, so it dodn't look as
>>pretty, but it worked.  I can send you the scripts if you like, although
>>they're pretty trivial.
>>
>>-- 
>>       Alec Habig, Boston University Particle Astrophysics Group
>>			   habig@budoe.bu.edu
>>	       http://www.astro.indiana.edu/home/ahabig/
>>

I have something similar on wormhole. I have a cron job which
reconstructs the home pages including scores by running the "scores"
tool. I don't do anything very fancy. Basically I just put <pre> 
tags around the scores output.


Nick
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