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In article <1990Apr9.153906.10314@cgch.uucp> wrtc@cgch.uucp (Roland Tucci) writes:
>Up to now I worked on a UN*X System, where we had several shell, awk and sed
>scripts to translate the output of the /index{...} command (the file  .idx)
>to a theindex environment.

>We hav now to move our documentation to a VAX VMS system. We have bought
>the TeX/LaTeX environment from ArborText for our VAX. Now we search a
>C or FORTRAN or PASCAL program or a DCL script which converts the \indexentry
>commands from .idx file to a theindex environment.

>Any hints to PD or comercial programs are welcome.

The *official* program for handling indexes is makeindex by Pehong Chen and 
Leslie Lamport. The current implementation is in C (there will someday be a
WEB implemenation). It may be FTP'd from ymir.claremont.edu in the directory
[anonymous.tex.utilities.makeindex]

-dh


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