Re: ook, eek and dgi

[bobdohse]

Hi Christof,   There is an old American song ... (called One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater").   The chorus sounds something like ... ... ook, eek, ook, ah, ah ...   Maybe I'll rewrite it as the Arachne theme song.       On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 00:49:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >   <snip> > these scripts do not require > knowledge in C programming, so anybody can do it. On the other hand > you need quite a bit experience with Arachne and the support of > the mailing list, because something seems to be rather magical. > This is VERY true.     > There are two main categories of these small utilities: > > 1. The OOKs and EEKs: They are pure DOS batch files. Their file > extension allows them to be started from Arachne. They always > work. But you cannot pass parameters to them. >   Is it possible to pass variables through the CFG files by storing text to an unused variable, then extracting the variable from within the batch file? Not exactly pretty, but would that be technically possible?   > 2. The DGIs: They are defined by a cryptic language in mime.cfg. > They > may contain DOS commands and external programs. You can pass > parameters from Arachne to them and their output can be returned to > Arachne. They generally work if Glenn writes them. > > Writing DGIs can be quite frustrating. But you can do more things > with them. And basically any OOK can be replaced by a DGI. Am I > right? > How about this.   I found a database that runs from the DOS command line. It's called MiniBSE (I think). I found it (the file is  minibse1.zip) at   www.simtel.net/pub/pd/42986.html.  The text says that it is a "Command line database works from DOS prompt", but I haven't tried it yet.   At any rate, if I can't get CGIs worked up to interface with my DOS database, how about using DGIs and MiniBSE, run from within the HTML page.   Since you're already on a roll with the DGIs, do you want to give it a try? Anybody else?       > Here is an implementation:  <snip> > Thanks for your contributions, Christof.     > > Is there any reason for the prevailing of .OOK scripts under Arachne? > No good reason, other than it's an easy way to start.   Thanks, again, for the scripts and the ideas.   Bob       -