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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Williams)
Wed Apr 19 02:53:11 1995
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 02:36:07 +0500
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From: pcw@hooked.net (Paul Williams)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
>Hello List,
>
> I have a couple of questions regarding .CGI scripts. Could someone
>point me to a good introduction to scripts? Am I correct in understanding
>that the scripts are generally written in C? That is no good for me (since
>I don't code). That being the case, are there any scripts already written
>that are available to the non-programmer?
1) there are a few hyperlinks for cgi scripting, but imho the best is
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi
2) scripts can be written in any language that can accecpt command line
arguments. Most typical scripts are written in shell scripting languages,
PERL, or C.
> See, my situation is this: I'm an Intern here at Georgia Southern
>University, and while I have a good deal of Intneret experience, and I can
>write good html, I'm totally unfamiliar with scripts and programming and
>the like. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
my advice: learn perl.
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