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FicMake

Over time, the time required for maintaining all of the stories that I've written, and outputting them in dozens of formats, began to exceed the time that I actually spent writing the stories in the first place. It was becoming obvious that I needed to write a program to maintain the fics for me. I had already written a few to help automate the process, so eventually, I combined them all into one, and added a few more neat tricks.

The resulting program was nice, at least for my needs. Your mileage may vary. I present it here, in case it works for you.

FicMake is a console program for UNIX (including Linux and BSD), though I have only tested it under Slackware 12.1. It requires several other programs, and has been tested with groff 1.19.2, GhostScript 8.62, netpbm 10.35.22, sed 4.1.5, and GNU make 3.81, and will probably work with earlier versions of any of the above. It requires the Free Pascal Compiler to compile, should you need to recompile it, and has been tested under versions 2.2.2 and 2.4.0.

You can view the manual here.

ficmake-0.9.0a.tar.gz contains the source code, a compiled binary that should work under most versions of Linux, the manual, and the source files for the manual.