Alex,
I have a copy of linkmat that I used to use (before I found Links). According to the docs, this is the format of the links data file (each field is delimited by the pipe symbol):
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Default field names are:
0. Category
1. Website Title
2. URL
3. Description
4. Name
5. E-Mail address
6. DateStamp (added by script)
7. Newline (\n) character
Another file, link.cfg, contains the actual category names that correspond to the Category field in the above description. Again, according to the docs, that file's format is:
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Line 1 is for the body tag to be used on results pages.
Line 2 is the title shown on results pages.
Starting with line 3, fill in your category names one per line, for up to 90 categories. Delete any stray blank lines.
A sample list of categories, taken from the default linkmat links.cfg looks like this (the "&" in the category names are actually "& amp;" in the file, without the space):
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Arts/Entertainment
Business/Finance
Computers/Internet
Education
Government/Politics
Health/Medicine
Living & Leisure
News & Reference
Science/Technology
Sports
Travel
Makker,
I think the above is more what Alex was looking for, or, at least, is all he really needs to write the conversion script. If you would be so kind as to edit your post and delete the database lines you entered or, change the code and /code to quote and /quote respectively, we won't have to vertically scroll to read this thread anymore.
[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited April 12, 1999).]