GPC Mail Lists in HTML

Thu, 25 Sep 1997 11:49:40 +0100

"Hello, world!" was the output of my first Pascal program; let me begin 
my way in this list with the same words.

With this mail I will like to present the conversion to HTML of the list 
files, but I'll introduce my self.

INTRODUCTION

I'm a linguist working on "lingware" (Natural Language processing 
software) for the Catalan language (about 8 million speakers) at 
University "Pompeu Fabra" in Barcelona. I'm "pascaler" since 1982 (with 
Turbo-Pascal 2 for CP/M in an Apple II); I have lots of routines in 
Pascal [e.g. for generation all of the verbal forms in Catalan]: it 
means that I'm prisoner of my work, because migrating to a newer 
language implies to translate thousands of code lines; in addition, I 
like Pascal, so I'm not impatient to change it.

At the moment, I use both Think P for Macintosh and Turbo P 7 (I develop 
in Mac and translate to TP7 for the windoides in my team); now it's time 
to go to Unix, because of some collaborators outside of our Institute.

We have a Sun SparcStation with SunOS 2.4; gpc is installed and works, 
at least to compile "hello, world!"; but I will need help about system 
calls, curses, file system, and so on.


GPC HTML LIST

I don't like to abuse of your help, so the first thing is to read all 
the past mails. I found that ASCII reading is very annoying, so I wrote 
a conversion program and I'm studing all your q&a to the list. The 
conversion is already done and I think it could be useful for other 
"pascalers", so I put it to general disposition in my Web server as my 
first contribution to the GPC list.

The URL is:

http://latel.upf.edu/morgana/altres/pub/gpc/list2html/gpclist.htm

I'll apreciate comments (things to be improved, about the interest or 
nonsense of this work...)


MAKING IT MORE EFFICIENT

The avantage of the HTML version of the past lists is that you download 
every time only one message and you can print it if necessary very 
quickly.

If you often access, I suggest to do as follows:

1.- Open one of the index files (v.g. "1997 by subject").
2.- Save it "as source", i.e. as HTML file, with the name you like.
3.- Because of the line

in the file, you can open it as local file but with remote links.
4.- If it doesn't work, let me know. 
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