command-line/CGI Revolution engine questions

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

> This, however, does work ok:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/mc
> on startup
>   put "hello world"
>   put linefeed
> end startup
>
> Now I understand why the previous poster (I'm bad with names) was 
> doing like this
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/mc
> start using stack "some.rev"

That is the direction I would explore.

I have noticed that 'send' does work.  The engine does not quit until 
there is no handler running and there are no messages in pending 
messages.  This could be handy for those things that cannot be done in 
startup.  And for allowing library messages to execute.

I would expect 'open' to have trouble, but I have not run the 
experiment.  Also on my list of experiments is 'start using' a stack 
with an external.

The above example is outside a script.  Does that really work?

I think Bill Vlahos talked many months ago about the problems with 
using a Revolution stack as a deamon; perhaps this would mitigate those 
problems.


> 3) The 2.1 command-line/CGI engines are not available?

Perhaps these are under policy review.  There was also a question 
earlier about unix engines which I assume double as command-line/CGI 
engines.  I hope RunRev does not become too concerned about these.

Dar Scott