Question about text cgis

[Jim Ault]

> I can't make this work - from a text cgi, anyway, I assume because in
> a text cgi, there is no 'this card' or 'this stack'.
> I also tried having an empty stack in the cgi-bin directory, and
> setting it's script to a text file from the original text cgi, and
> then putting it in use, but this just got the same error as the
> previous approach...
Well, Mark, this is a new one for me.  I thought that there always had to be
a 'stack' and at least one 'card'.  Someone else will have to answer why
this cannot be done.  I quickly built a little stand alone that sets the
script of 'this card', goes to the next, etc, etc.  No problem.  Compiles
and executes on the fly as I would expect.

Are you sure you cannot set the script of 'this card' to the word 'cat' or
something simple?  Perhaps you have tried to set it to a handler that cannot
be compiled and the error message you happen to get is 'no such card'

Try a single word or phrase that Rev does not think is a handler.
Then try a simple handler like

"on test" & cr & "answer the number of this card" & cr & "end test"

As I said, I have not seen this technique fail, but I am not a well-traveled
guru, so I will learn yet another lesson :-)


Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 3/30/06 5:32 PM, "Mark Smith" <mark at maseurope.net> wrote:

> I can't make this work - from a text cgi, anyway, I assume because in
> a text cgi, there is no 'this card' or 'this stack'.
> I also tried having an empty stack in the cgi-bin directory, and
> setting it's script to a text file from the original text cgi, and
> then putting it in use, but this just got the same error as the
> previous approach...
> So I can't see how we could include a library text file,  maybe we're
> stuck with having to use a library stack.
> However, a stack is only going to be about 4k bigger than a text file
> containing the same script.
> Out of curiosity, what's the objection to putting a stack in use from
> a text cgi?
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 30 Mar 2006, at 21:24, Jim Ault wrote:
> 
>> Try these steps :
>> 
>> put "script01"&".txt" into FN
>> put "c:/my documents/" into pathh
>> set the script of this card to url ("file:" & pathh & FN)
>> 
>> --or the script of button 22, etc.
>> 
>> set the script of this card to ""
>> 
>> --adding to the stack script would be
>> get the script of this stack
>> set the script of this stack to it & cr &  url ("file:" & pathh & FN)
>> 
>> --more elaborate
>> put the script of this card into origCdScript
>> get url ("file:" & pathh & FN) & cr & origCdScript
>> set the script of this card to it
>> --call handler
>> set the script of this card to origCdScript
>> 
>> --alternative
>> put " origCdScript"&".txt" into FN
>> put "c:/my documents/" into pathh
>> put the script of this card into url ("file:" & pathh & FN)
>> 
>> 
>> Jim Ault
>> Las Vegas
>> 
>> On 3/30/06 12:25 PM, "jbv" <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> I have a blank : I'm looking for a way to "include" external handlers
>>> in a text-based cgi script and can't find a way to do that...
>>> Here's what I mean : let's say I have a handler that performs a
>>> specific
>>> 
>>> task ("on myTask") that I want to use in various cgi scripts. Of
>>> course
>>> I can paste it in every script after the "on startup / end startup"
>>> handler,
>>> but it would be more convenient if it were an external file and to
>>> just
>>> call it from each script, just like "#include" for libraries in C, or
>>> "require_once" in php etc.
>>> 
>>> I see how to do it with cgi stacks, but is there a way to do that
>>> with
>>> text-based scripts ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> JB
>>> 
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