Converting Web Blade Templates to AOLserver Tcl

by Philip Greenspun for Web Tools Review, vaguely a part of Illustra Tips article
Here are the steps:
  1. Install AOLserver; grab it from http://www.aolserver.com/. Assume you set it up to listen to http://yourdomain.com:8000/ rooted at /web/
  2. Put my utilities.tcl file where the AOLserver will load it on server startup
  3. Put grind-funcs.tcl and grind-pages.tcl in a directory underneath the Web server root (i.e., so that they look like documents), e.g., at /web/
  4. Edit those two .tcl files to set the directory paths to legal places in your Unix file system.
  5. Use Netscape Navigator to request http://yourdomain.com:8000/grind-funcs.tcl and then http://yourdomain.com:8000/grind-pages.tcl
  6. Edit the directory names at the top of ill-to-aol.pl and then run it.
  7. Hand-edit the output of ill-to-aol.pl in GNU Emacs.
Good luck! If you get stuck and want to hire a consultant, I know a few MIT undergrads who would be willing to TELNET into your server and fix things up for you. They work for about $50/hour. You can contact and pay them directly: Ben Adida, ben@mit.edu and Brian Tivol, tivol@mit.edu.
philg@mit.edu