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hlins

HLINS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  HLINS(1)

NAME

       hlins - insert url's into html documents

SYNOPSIS

       hlins [options] [infile]

DESCRIPTION

       hlins  is  a program that inserts hypertext links into html documents, according to one or several data bases associating addresses (url's)
       to names. hlins is designed for inserting links for persons: It knows about abbreviations of first and middle names and tolerated  dropping
       of the last part of a composite last name.

       If no file argument is given then input is taken from stdin; when no output option (see below) is given then output goes to stdout.

       For a complete description, see the documention in html format.

OPTIONS

       hlins follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--').

       -o, --output-file file
	      Write to file instead of standard output

       -h, --help
	      Show a summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show the version of the program.

       -q, --quiet
	      Surpress diagnostic output.

       -db, --data-bases files ...
	      Use files ... as data bases

       -m, --modify files ...
	      Dont't act as filter but perform in-pace modifications of files.

       -R, --recursive
	      Recursively descend into directories and act on all files with names ending on .html.

       -td, --tmp-dir dir
	      Use directory dir to create temporary files.

       --db-to-html
	      List the address data bases in HTML format to stdout.

ENVIRONMENT

       TMPDIR default directory for creating temporay files.

VERSION

       This manual pages describes version 0.39.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation with examples should be available in /usr/share/doc/hlins/.
       See also the hlins home page http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~treinen/hlins/.

AUTHOR

       Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>.

								   July 25, 2000							  HLINS(1)

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