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aha(1)								 Ansi HTML Adapter							    aha(1)

NAME

	aha - Ansi HTML Adapter

SYNOPSIS

       aha [options] [-f datei]

DESCRIPTION

       aha takes SGR-colored Input and prints W3C conform HTML-Code.
       aha reads the Input from a file or stdin and writes HTML-Code to stdout.

OPTIONS

       --help , -h , -?
	      A help like this

       --black , -b
	      Black Background and white "standard color"

       --pink , -p
	      Pink Background

       --iso X , -i X
	      Uses ISO 8859-X instead of utf-8. X must be 1..16

       --title X , -t X
	      Gives the html output the title

       --line-fix , -l
	      Uses a fix for inputs using control sequences to change the cursor position like htop. It's a hot fix, it may not work with any pro-
	      gram like htop. (See EXAMPLE)

EXAMPLE

       aha --help | aha --black --title "the awesome aha help"> aha-help.htm
	      Creates an HTML file with the help of aha with black background

       colordiff oldfile.c newfile.c | aha > colordiff.htm
	      Creates an HTML file with a colorful diff-output of two files "oldfile.c" and "newfile.c" with white background

       ls --color=always | aha --pink > ls.htm
	      Creates an HTML file with a colorful ls-output with pink background.

       echo a | htop | aha --black --line-fix > htop.htm
	      Creates an HTML file with the output of htop. You have to use --line-fix due the other new-line-commands htop uses.

AUTHOR

       Copyleft Alexander Matthes aka Ziz 2011
       zizsdl@googlemail.com

SEE ALSO

       http://ziz.delphigl.com/tool_aha.php

								  August 31, 2011							    aha(1)