[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Benson]

Yes. Lets do that for now.

I will throw a MediaWiki up on DECtec.info (it had one before but it
blew up and caused problems, but it was very neglected) so we can try
hurling parsed files at in MW format.

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Mark



On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 8 Sep 2015, at 15:52, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I need a DATATRIEVE expert... any volunteers? :)
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>> Aside from that, MediaWiki might be the best idea for storage (even if
>> I'm not that keen on it) as it's easy to host and the front-end is
>> relatively platform agnostic.
>>
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> My idea was to keep the "sources" in VMS HLP format and write some scripts to convert them to whatever we need (including MediaWiki markup that I then automatically upload).
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> This way people can access the information through various sources (Plain text files over FAL, MediaWiki, VMS HELP, JSON for further processing etc).
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> Basically you describe the output format to me and I write the scripts to produce them - the source file is copied across HECnet to CHIMPY which produces the various outputs, updates the Wiki and possibly even notifies interested parties of updates made.
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> Sound like a plan?
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>