I am wondering how to invoke some of Unix's shorter functions from inside .mt script that we would run on a web server.. e.g. to insert the date into a web page one can put this Server Side Include in the html text: <!--#config timefmt="%B %e, %Y" --> but there will instances where I would rather now have such comments in the code of the html document and would rather get the date and insert it directly --Next we get today's date items put the long date into tToday put item 3 of tToday into tYear put word 1 of item 2 of tToday into tMonth put word 2 of item 2 of tToday into tDay if tDay is in (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) then put "0" before tDay put tMonth & " " & tDay & ", " & tYear into tDate replace "### the date ###" with tDate in tFileToServe Question is: that's six lines of xTalk (maybe because of my poor scripting?) vs 1 line of unix: <!--#config timefmt="%B %e, %Y" --> is there a way to, from within the .mt script to "send" a unix function request and thereby shorten the code? And if so, how would be it done. If I had one sample, that would help, then by extension I can incorporate more "raw unix script" from within the .mt script as the need arises... Of course one might as well also just learn to write shell script and use those as cgi.. but there are occasions where we will want to be able to combine the two. Hinduism Today Sivakatirswami Editor's Assistant/Production Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HinduismToday.com, www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.Gurudeva.org, www.hindu.org Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
