Updating HumaneText.service

For the record HumaneText.service is a Mac OS X service that will convert back and forth between Markdown and XHTML. As newer versions of Aaron Swartz’s html2text script and John Gruber’s Markdown script become available updating this service is a simple matter.

1. Copy in the new script to the HumaneText.service package.

2. If updating html2text, create a new symlink to the html2text script named backward. Remember to add the shebang line to the script.

   ln -fs html2text.py backward

3. Set the permissions to 755

4. Log out/log in

Same goes for updating the Markdown.pl, but as the name of the script is the same a new symlink is not needed.

This is mostly a record for me to remember how I did it.

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