Readme for idx2html - Simtel IDX to HTML converter 
Version 1.0 10/25/99 Written by don@pobox.com
Free software, freely distributable, use at your own risk.

The Simtel archives are kept in comma-delimited files.
I wrote a perl script to convert those to html.
I did this for the win95, win3, and msdos archives.
There are files in each folder called DIRS.TXT. I also wrote a perl script
to convert those to index.html into win95, win3, and msdos.

To run, just unzip the archive into the desired folder. For example I put
mine in d:\inetpub\www\simtel. Type runme.bat and you're done!
If you're running Unix type "sh runme.bat" or chmod +x runme.bat first.

Here's what you get:
d2h.pl	     - dirs2html creates win95\index.html, win3\index.html and msdos\index.html
i2h.pl       - idx2html takes SIMMS.IDX, WIM9N31.IDX, and SIMWN95.IDX and turns them 
		into html files (one for each subfolder).
index.html   - Web page to point to other indexes after you run d2h.pl
readme.txt   - This file
runme.bat    - ftp's the indexes and DIRS.TXT files from ftp.simtel.net

After running runme.bat you should also see:
SIMDOS-I.ZIP - Simtel msdos index zip file
SIMMS.IDX    - Simtel msdos index extracted
SIMW95-I.ZIP - Simtel win95 index zip file
SIMWIN-I.ZIP - Simtel win3 index zip file
SIMWN31.IDX  - Simtel win3 index extracted
SIMWN95.IDX  - Simtel win95 index extracted
msdos        - folder for the dos archive html documents. 
msdos.txt    - Simtel msdos directories with descriptions
win3         - folder for the win3 archive html documents.
win3.txt     - Simtel win3 directories with descriptions
win95        - folder for the win95 archive html documents.
win95.txt    - Simtel win95 directories with descriptions


You need unzip (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/)
and perl (http://www.perl.org/)

This was designed to work under Unix or Windows NT/95/98.
Let me (don@pobox.com) know if you get stuck or have requests.

