'expect' might help you script it if you cant get at source and need to bolt some cgi ontop of the curses
Dean On Fri, June 2, 2006 12:58 pm, Michael Lake wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Much trying, no sucess (even with win4lin etc, fancy graphics >> requirements) >> Why wont they do as googlemars? <sigh> >> http://www.google.com/mars/ >> James > > If you go to http://www.google.com/mars/about.html you will find out about > where this > data comes from: > - Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. > - Infrared images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on > NASA's Mars > Odyssey spacecraft. > > I'm currently helping a student process the raw data from these missions. > I download > the data and the processing software runs on Linux. Even better, Linux is > the > development and main platform for doing this stuff. I can take about 45 > minutes to > process a batch of data and eventually end up with tiff files about 80-200 > MBytes in > size using a dual xeon with lots of ram. She has 600 images to do. > > The interface is a curses application and in fact I was wondering last > night if I can > work out someway to automatically generate a web-based app from the > curses app i.e. > have a perl cgi app that passes its commands to an an instance of the > curses app, the > output of the curses screen being transformed into a html form to the > user. > > This would enable the student to run the software via aweb interface > without needing > a login to the Linux processing machine. > > Mike > -- > Michael Lake > Science Faculty, UTS > Ph: 9514 8232 Fx: 9514 1460 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
