Subj : Tool wanted
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Dec 02 2004 01:13 pm

  Re: Tool wanted
  By: Angus Mcleod to Frank Reid on Thu Dec 02 2004 08:26 am

 >  >  > Damn!  That's exactly what I need to do.  :-/
 >  >
 >  > I cobbled this together based on some code I found on Google for the
 >  > RFC-1738 stuff.  There are absolutely no bounds checking on the main
 >  > routine, which only "encodes" the input string passed to the program.
 >  > Maybe you can work something with this?
 > 
 > See recently posted perl scripts that do what I need.  Thanks for your
 > efforts, anyway.
 > 
 > Your C version is probably more portable, but Ugh!  Is it ugly?  :-)  You
 > tempt me to try an implementation in C myself.

Why not do a JS implementation? I believe URL/URI encoding/decoding is a "core"
function (http://synchro.net/docs/js/ref/). And you could use Synchronet's
jsexec to execute it. A shell script to execute it (reaing from stdin) would be
something like:

#!/sbbs/exec/jsexec
write(encodeURI(readln()));

// Or to encode a command-line argument:
write(encodeURI(argv[0]));

Too simple I think. :-)

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