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[Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called "entities" and "fixup"
- Subject: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called "entities" and "fixup"
- From: bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)
- Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:26:34 -0400
- In-reply-to: <53DC7A46.6060106@gmail.com>
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On 8/2/2014 1:42 AM, Tom Metro wrote: > Quoting your original message: >> ...I'm seeking information about a binary named "entities", and one >> named "fixup". I've found them in a script that processes emails >> into html pages for publications, but the script's author isn't >> available, and neither is working. > I gather the script is custom and not from some project? My guess would > be that these tools were borrowed from some other project. Probably a > mail archiving tool. Some more searching might turn up their origin. I didn't see any mention of the name anywhere in this context. > What's the big picture that you are trying to accomplish with the > script? Presenting the Telecom Digest on a web site? Maybe an > off-the-shelf mail archiving tool is a better way to go? (Like MHonArc.) AFAICT, it's intended to replace HTML reserved characters with HTML entities. Less-than becomes "<", etc. > What language is the script written in? 'fixup' remains a mystery, but > you probably know enough about 'entities' to replace it with some > in-line code. Greg gave you a PHP example. It could be done as a > one-liner in Perl, with the assistance of a module. I don't know what language it was written in. I accepted help from a volunteer who installed several scripts, and this binary was in one of them. I'll try the PHP that Greg suggested, and rebuild the process. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting 339-364-8487
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