Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread John Griffiths
Hello, Lisa Nyman wrote: > (unless of course you have a script users run which does this by intent). I do, I have sites to which users post updates and which then backup, rebuild and regenerate themselves with staged copies. -- Dr. John Griffiths \( ~ )7 The Teahouse of Experience MAILTO:[E

Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread Lisa Nyman
Hi, On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, John Griffiths wrote: > I agree, I make & update static web site pages routinely, using the > methods recommended in other posts to this thread, but rather than > flocking files I write the new copy in a 'safe' place and then make a > copy of it on the web server. This

Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread John Griffiths
Hi, long time lurker here, appreciate the list's work, noticed that Stephan Tinnemeyer wrote: > You should, however, make use of the OS's file lock mechanism > (if there is any) to prevent two instances of your script (which may be > started by a web user?) from concurrent access to the file. I

Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread Stephan Tinnemeyer
Richard, why do you want to redirect the output? Your script can write directly to a file. You should, however, make use of the OS's file lock mechanism (if there is any) to prevent two instances of your script (which may be started by a web user?) from concurrent access to the file. Cheers Ste

Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Long time reader, first time writer here... > > For a personal project, I would like to use Perl to generate static HTML > pages. Can the output of CGI be redirected to a file which can be read > later by a browser? What is the best way to approa

Re: Generating static HTML Pages

2001-12-05 Thread Andre` Niel Cameron
Sure, Something like this: open(DAT, ">index.html" || die ("Cant Open the file"); print DAT "PAGE"; print DAT "Some more stuff here"; close DAT; Regards, Andre` C. Technical Support Ô¿Ô¬ - Visit our support manual at h