<link> not clickable from text document

[M. Lewis]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> I have many, many, many links like:
> 
> http://www.foo.com/
> http://www.bar.com/
> 
> with one per line, in a text file.  is there a simple way to convert that to
> 
> 
> <a href="http://www.foo.com/">foo</a>
> 
> or something similar, so that the links are "clickable" in mozilla?
> 
> It's not a html question per se, or maybe it is, I dunno :)
> 
> 
> I imagine that a script could do it, but I don't know how to write a
> script (at least nothing like that).
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Actually, I always found it annoying that microsoft word makes links
> clickable whether you want that or not.  Hey, maybe I found a use for
> that "feature" :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 

Thufir, I'm not certain that I completely understand your question.

 From what I understand, this would be very simple to do with a short 
perl script.

If this is indeed what you'd like to do, mail me off-list and I will 
help you with it.

Thanks,
Mike