---
name: "chalow"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "chalow"
version: "1.0-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/chalow"
---

# chalow(1p)

weblog tool that converts ChangeLog to HTML

## NAME

chalow - weblog tool that converts ChangeLog to HTML

## SYNOPSIS

**chalow** \[*OPTION*\]... *CHANGELOG*...

## DESCRIPTION

**chalow** is a weblog tool written in Perl. It converts ChangeLog to HTML and RSS.

The options are as follows:

- **-n, --top-n**=*NUM*

  write *NUM* days to index.html

- **-o, --output-dir**=*DIR*

  directory to output

- **-c, --configure-file**=*FILE*

  configure file

- **-s, --stop-date**=*DATE*

  date to stop processing

- **-u, --update-by-size**

  overwrite only if sizes are different

- **-C, --css**=*FILE*

  css file

- **-q, --quiet**

  quiet mode

- **-8, --utf8**

  utf8 mode

- **-d, --debug**

  debug mode

## EXAMPLES

### Generate index.html, cl.rdf, etc. from ChangeLog:

```
chalow ChangeLog
```

### Generate index.html, cl.rdf, etc. from ChangeLog with cl.conf:

```
chalow -c cl.conf ChangeLog
```

### Generate index.html, cl.rdf, etc. into the $HOME/public\_html/diary directory from ChangeLog\* (such as ChangeLog, ChangeLog.2, ChangeLog.old) with cl.conf in utf8 mode:

```
chalow --utf8 -o $HOME/public_html/diary -c cl.conf ChangeLog*
```

## BUGS

**chalow** assumes that ChangeLog file is encoded with EUC-JP or US-ASCII by default. If you want to use UTF-8, use the utf8 mode option (\`-8' or \`--utf8'). Other encodings, such as ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, EUC-KR, are not supported.

This manual page is provided by Debian.  It is not integrated in the upstream source.

## SEE ALSO

More information is available at \`/usr/share/doc/chalow' on Debian systems.