--- misc/mythes-1.2.0.orig/th_gen_idx.pl	2010-02-27 12:52:58.000000000 -0300
+++ misc/build/mythes-1.2.0/th_gen_idx.pl	2012-01-12 04:13:15.149371123 -0300
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-# perl program to take a thesaurus structured text data file 
-# and create the proper sorted index file (.idx)
+:
+eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}'
+    if 0;
+#**************************************************************
+#
+#  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#  distributed with this work for additional information
+#  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+#  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+#  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 #
-# typcially invoked as follows:
-# cat th_en_US_new.dat | ./th_gen_idx.pl > th_en_US_new.idx
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+#  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+#  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+#  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+#  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#  under the License.
 #
+#**************************************************************
 
 sub by_entry {
     my ($aent, $aoff) = split('\|',$a);
@@ -13,6 +28,27 @@ sub by_entry {
     $aent cmp $bent;
 }
 
+#FIXME: someone may want "infile" or even parameter parsing
+sub get_outfile {
+	my $next_is_file = 0;
+	foreach ( @ARGV ) {
+		if ( $next_is_file ) {
+			return $_
+		}
+		if ( $_ eq "-o" ) {
+			$next_is_file = 1;
+		}
+	}
+	return "";
+}
+
+sub usage {
+	print "usage:\n";
+	print "$0 -o outfile < input\n";
+
+	exit 99;
+}
+
 # main routine
 my $ne = 0;       # number of entries in index
 my @tindex=();    # the index itself
@@ -24,6 +60,10 @@ my $nm=0;         # number of meaning fo
 my $meaning="";   # current meaning and synonyms
 my $p;            # misc uses
 my $encoding;     # encoding used by text file
+my $outfile = "";
+
+$outfile = get_outfile();
+usage() if ( $outfile eq "" );
 
 # top line of thesaurus provides encoding
 $encoding=<STDIN>;
@@ -51,9 +91,13 @@ while ($rec=<STDIN>){
 # now we have all of the information
 # so sort it and then output the encoding, count and index data
 @tindex = sort by_entry @tindex;
-print STDOUT "$encoding\n";
-print STDOUT "$ne\n";
+
+print "$outfile\n";
+open OUTFILE, ">$outfile" or die "ERROR: Can't open $outfile for writing!";
+print OUTFILE "$encoding\n";
+print OUTFILE "$ne\n";
 foreach $one (@tindex) {
-    print STDOUT "$one\n";
+    print OUTFILE "$one\n";
 }
+close OUTFILE;