I had forgotten about Firestorm. Very impressive, Bruce! Has anyone
tried running Firestorm on apple servers?
Joe.
On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Bruce Conrad wrote:
Hi all,
One of you has privately reminded me of some early work done at
INDASE in 1996-97, which includes a simulated DP-like lookup list.
This was implemented in Perl on the server side, with a lot of help
from Thom Boyer. You can see it at http://www.sanbachs.net/cgi-bin/
nfCDIL01.pl or begin a search from the computerized ancestor home
page at http://www.sanbachs.net/cdi/ . This particular project is
no longer in operation, but some of the machinery is still there.
The Perl scripts to implement this can be generated using the
complete set of Firestorm code, including the METAD database by
importing some reports which generate Perl scripts like these for
any database. Sketchy instructions can be located at http://
www.sanbachs.net/firestorm/perl.html and other pages that you can
reach from http://www.sanbachs.net/firestorm/
However, there is an easier way, involving only DP reports added to
an existing database. These reports generate a separate HTML page
for each possible position of each lookup list. In the sample, the
generated lookup pages are named I3L10.HTM through I3L2623.HTM,
standing for Index 3, Lookup position 10 (the first position)
through position 2623 (the last position). That amounts to a lot of
files, but DP is quick on today's machines, and there is plenty of
disk space. A sample database is available at http://
www.sanbachs.net/ufv/ so that you can see how this can be done.
There are three reports. The first generates all possible positions
of a ten line lookup list for one panel. The second generates a
simple web page for each record. The third generates a list mapping
strings to lookup positions. It can be used with a CGI script to
simulate typing in the lookup list. I can furnish that script upon
request.
Please send me your comments and suggestions.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Bruce
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