Running Fern

To run Fern, you need:

The Fern executable ("fern.exe" for OS/2; "fern" for Unix)
A Fern Definition file
An HTML document to check

Start Fern on the command line by specifying the definition file and HTML file to use:

Usage: Example:
fern fern.def file.html fern.exe fern.def index.htm

Usage:	Example:
fern fern.def file.html	fern.exe fern.def index.htm

Fern first loads in the definition file, then processes the HTML document. Output from the document checking is sent to the screen (standard out). Use ">" to redirect the output to a file.

fern.exe fern.def index.html > checked.txt

Optional definitions for Fern can be specified on the command line. For example, to define the variable "TTON", use:

fern.exe fern.def index.html TTON=true
Any number of optional command-line parameters can be specified. Please note: the command-line parameters are case-sensitive. That is, "TTON=true" is different than "tton=true".

Running Fern from Templeton

To run Fern automatically from Templeton, you should use Templeton's "Command_html" or "Command_pattern" features. The entry to Templeton's configuration file would look something like:

command_html fern.exe fern.def %F TTON=true Date="%N" >> h:\fern.out

command_pattern * fern.exe fern.def %F TTON=true Date="%N" SlowModem=TRUE Accessibility=TRUE >> h:\fern2.out

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