Using awsdex.rexx

awsdex.rexx is a short rexx script for building index.html files for directories where you would use the NCSA diretory listing facility. To use it, create a file called index in the directory in question, then run awsdex in that directory. Optionally, you can give awsdex the directory name as an argument.

The first line of the index file should start with the string "Index:" (not case sensitive), followed by the title to be used in the index.html file being built. Next should come a blank line, then one line or pair of lines for each file to be listed in index.html, seperated by blank lines. The lines must contain a line that starts with "File:" and contains the file name to be listed. There may also be a line that starts "Title:" and lists the contents of the anchor tag generated for this file.

You can get a sample index file and the resulting index.html from my server.

Mike Meyer