[Info-vax] CSWS symbols

[Michael Austin]

jo jimbo wrote:
> Doing some work with CSWS I've (again) been frustrated by it's hiding of 
> symbols passed into a cgi script.  You can't just have a dcl script that 
> does a "show symbol/all" to see everything that's available.  At least in 
> 1.3 that's the way it is, not so sure about later versions.  You can only 
> access a symbol if you know the name, like "show symbol query_string".  So 
> I'm wondering why that was done and even more how did they do it?
> 
> BTW, the alpha XP900 under my desk doesn't seem so cozy today as it was in 
> the winter what with spring hurtling to summer here out west.  It is a great 
> little box, but I need to move it somewhere else.
> 
> Regards,  Jim 
> 
> 


why bother with CGI - use PHP - much easier an a LOT more flexible.