Dos Gateway Interface DEMO
The first form calls a virtual script echo.dgi, which is equivalent
to an online CGI script executing just the echo $QUERY_STRING command.
The form is only intended to demonstrate how simple the user interface can be.
Power GREP, a simple DGI query, will call the DOS utility "find"
(if it is installed on your PC!) and tell it to search all HTML files
in the current directory and its subdirectories
(find string \*.* /S - Open DOS
implements the /S tag; I don't know if MSDOS also does)
This demonstrates, that
even unmodified DOS programs can be integrated into your Intranet.
(Press Enter in the input box to start...)
Note for programers:
If you want to create your own DGI scripts
(to add a user-friendly interface to your offline programs, or to put them online locally
on LANs with Novell servers), simply add their definition to the
MIME.CFG file. If you want to distribute your DGI script,
you don't even have to write your own setup program, just learn to
distribute Arachne DGI components using Arachne Package
Manager!
Please also include information about
Arachne homepage, so anyone can
get the latest version of Arachne.