A. How is this document generated

So you want to know how I generated this HOWTO? Or, did you download SGML version of this document, modified some portions in it and now want to know how you can create HOWTO?

I made sure there are no errors in my SGML by first typing the command nsgmls -s ataraid.sgml. I created a script called makehowto and ran the command ./makehowto ataraid.sgml. Here is the my makehowto script:

#!/bin/bash # # makehowto by Murty Rompalli # (c) All Rights Reserved # Free for non commercial use. All other uses must be authorized explicitly # by the creator. Contact me for more info. [email protected] u r t y.net # function maketut() { echo;echo Creating Tutorial Files ... jade \ -t sgml \ -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/html/ldp.dsl\#html \ $1.sgml } function makehtml { echo;echo Creating html file: $1.html ... jade \ -t sgml \ -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/html/docbook.dsl \ -V nochunks \ $1.sgml > $1.html } function maketxt { if [ -f $1.html ] then echo;echo Creating text file: $1.txt ... lynx -dump $1.html > $1.txt else echo;echo $1.html not found, creating ... makehtml $1 maketxt $1 fi } function makepdf { [ -f $1.ps ] && gzip $1.ps if [ -f $1.ps.gz ] then echo;echo Creating pdf file: $1.pdf ... gzip -dc $1.ps.gz | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf - else echo;echo $1.ps.gz not found creating ... makeps $1 makepdf $1 fi } function maketex { echo;echo Creating TeX file $1.tex ... jade \ -t tex \ -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/cygnus-both.dsl\#print \ $1.sgml gzip $1.tex echo $1.tex gzipped to $1.tex.gz } function makedvi { echo;echo Creating DVI file $1.dvi ... db2dvi $1.sgml >/dev/null 2>&1 echo See $1.log for errors gzip $1.dvi echo $1.dvi gzipped to $1.dvi.gz } function makeps { echo;echo Creating PS file $1.ps ... db2ps $1.sgml >/dev/null 2>&1 echo See $1.log for errors gzip $1.ps echo $1.ps gzipped to $1.ps.gz } #### Begin Main Program echo " makehowto utility for generating HOWTO from SGML file. (c) Murty Rompalli " [ x$1 = x ] && echo "Error. Usage: $0 abc.sgml '{tut|html|pdf|tex|dvi|ps|all}' Option 'all' is default if sgml file is the only option supplied. Options: ------- tut Make complete tutorial, i.e., generate necessary html files html Make a printable single HTML file pdf Make a PDF file tex Make a TeX source file, gzipped dvi Make a DVI file, gzipped ps Make a PostScript file, gzipped all Generate all possible formats. " && exit file="`echo $1|sed 's/\.sgml$//'`" [ x$file = x ] && echo Error. Usage: $0 abc.sgml '{tut|html|tex|dvi|ps|all}' && exit [ -f $file.sgml ] || { echo Error. $file.sgml does not exist exit } [ -r $file.sgml ] || { echo Error. $file.sgml not readable exit } if [ x$2 = x ] then action=all else action=$2 fi case $action in tut|tutorial) maketut $file ;; html|htm) makehtml $file ;; tex|latex) maketex $file ;; dvi) makedvi $file ;; ps) makeps $file ;; text|txt) maketxt $file ;; pdf) makepdf $file ;; all) maketut $file makehtml $file maketex $file makedvi $file makeps $file maketxt $file makepdf $file ;; *) echo error ;; esac \rm -f $file.aux \rm -f $file.tex \rm -f $file.dvi echo;echo makehowto: Finished echo You can review $file.log and delete it. echo Thank you for using makehowto. echo

You can also just type ./makehowto ataraid.sgml pdf, for example, if you just want create PDF version. Just type ./makehowto to get more help on using the script. Click here to download this makehowto script.