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Number 26 1995
IAT INFOBITS August 1995 Number 26 ISSN 1071-5223
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CGI -- COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE
Creating basic World-Wide Web homepages for a Web server is an
easily-mastered skill (see "Weave Your Own Web Pages," IAT Infobits,
Number 21, March 1995). But if you want to add more operations to your Web
server that allow user interactivity and reader feedback, you soon find
yourself facing the prospect of learning to write CGI (Common Gateway
Interface) scripts. A gateway script can link the server to a database
and permit users to search for information on your site. It can present
a blank form to a user and then process the information gathered from
the completed form. In short, CGI scripts allow your Web server to go
beyond simply serving up screens of information to your users.
If you are planning to program CGI scripts or just want to find out
more about them, here are some sources of information.
World-Wide Web resources:
A Common Gateway Interface overview
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/intro.html
or
http://paulina.elkraft.unit.no/ncsa/cgi/overview.html
Beginner's tutorial
http://www.catt.ncsu.edu/~bex/tutor/index.html
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
List
http://www.best.com/~hedlund/cgi-faq/faq-general.html
Web Developer's Virtual Library: CGI
http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib/Providers/CGI.html
Yahoo's CGI page
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/CGI___Common_Gateway_Interfa
ce
Books that contain chapters on CGI:
Chandler, David M., with Bill Kirkner and Jim Minatel. Running a
Perfect Web Site. Carmel, IN: Que, 1995. 457 pages. ISBN:
0-7897-0210-X.
Graham, Ian S. The HTML Sourcebook. New York: Wiley, 1995. 416 pages.
ISBN: 0-471-11849-4.
Lemay, Laura. Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, 1995. 397 pages. ISBN 0-672-30667-0.
Liu, Cricket, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones, Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye.
Managing Internet Information Services. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly &
Associates, 1994. 668 pages. ISBN: 1-56592-062-7.
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REMEMBERING THE BIRTH OF THE ATOMIC AGE
The August/September 1995 issue of TECHNOLOGY REVIEW is a special
edition devoted to reflections on "Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their
aftermath, and the future." Four articles from the publication are
available on the World-Wide Web at URL
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/articles/aug95/atomic.h
tml
Technology Review [ISSN 0040-1692] is published eight times a year by
the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Subscriptions are available from Technology Review, P.O.
Box 489, Mount Morris, IL 61054 USA; tel: 800-877-5230 or 815-734-1116;
fax: 815-734-1127; email: trsubscriptions@mit.edu
Back issues are available at Technology Review's World-Wide Web home
page at URL http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/tr.html
Pointers to other atomic age articles on the Web are available at URL
http://web.mit.edu/afs
/athena/org/t/techreview/www/articles/aug95/linksatomic.html
For more information on nuclear energy, weapons, and related topics
check out "Todd's Atomic Homepage" (created by Todd Postma, a Nuclear
Engineering graduate student at the University of California at
Berkeley) at URL
http://neutrino.nuc.berkeley.edu:80/neutronics/todd.html
Other related World-Wide Web sites to explore include:
The Manhattan Project (in French) at URL
http://www.netfrance.com/Libe/manhat/index.html
The Leo Szilard Home Page (physicist, 1898-1964) at URL
http://www.peak.org/~danneng/szilard.html
Remembering Nagasaki at URL http://isaac.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/
Peacewire's articles on Hiroshima-Nagasaki at URL
http://www.peacewire.org/pw/harticles.html and the Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Project at URL http://www.peacewire.org/pw/hiromenu.html
John Davis' World War II - "50 Years Ago" Archives at URL
http://www.webcom.com/~jbd/ww2.html
Military history sites at URL http://www.vestnett.no/vulcan/index.html
and at URL http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/milhst/m_index.html
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LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES PROJECT
The Less Commonly Taught Languages project (LCTL), through the Center
for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University
of Minnesota, collects and disseminates information on all languages
other than French, German, Spanish, and modern English. The main
objectives of the LCTL project are to bring together and then
disseminate information about teaching of less-commonly-taught
languages. The LCTL Gopher server presents an alphabetical list of less
commonly taught languages, and for each language, lists the
institutions where the language is taught in the U.S. and Canada, along
with the name, address and phone number of a contact person at that
institution.
The Gopher site is located at URL gopher://lctl.acad.umn.edu/
The project also has a World-Wide Web site at URL
http://lctl.acad.umn.edu/
For more information, contact LCTL Project, CARLA, UTEC Suite 111, 1313
5th Street SE, Minneapolis MN 55414 USA; tel: 612-627-1872; fax:
612-627-1875; email: LCTL@maroon.tc.umn.edu
The mission of CARLA (sponsor of the LCTL Project) is to study
multilingualism and multiculturalism and to advance the quality of
second-language teaching and learning by conducting high-quality
research, sharing research-based and other forms of knowledge across
disciplines, and extending, exchanging and applying this knowledge in
the wider society. For more information about other CARLA projects,
check out their World-Wide Web site at URL http://134.84.235.92/
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ILLUSTRATED FRENCH NEWSPAPER ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
LIBERATION, a French daily newspaper (circulation 230,000), has
launched a World-Wide Web version of "Multimedia," its weekly
illustrated supplement. It is available at URL
http://www.netfrance.com/Libe/
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DIGITAL VIDEO ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
"Playing the Web: Digital Video in Cyberspace" by Allan Lundell
(Digital Video Magazine, Volume 3, Number 7, July 1995, pp. 38-43, 46, 48,
50) provides a survey of some digital video resources on the World-Wide
Web. Along with a hot list of sites to check out, Lundell discusses
some of the tools that promote digital video use on the Internet,
including CU-SeeMe (allows videoconferencing on the Internet) and
QuickTime VR (allows ability to navigate 360 degrees in a virtual or
photographed environment; eventually may include live video
capabilities).
Lundell's hot list is also available on the World-Wide Web at URL
http://gate.cruzio.com:80/arts/lib/sun/hotlink1.html
His homepage is at URL http://www.cruzio.com/arts/lib/sun
The "Index to Multimedia Information Sources" at URL
http://viswiz.gmd.de/MultimediaInfo provides an online connection to
more digital video information and sites.
Digital Video Magazine [ISSN 1075-251X] is published monthly by
ActiveMedia, Inc., 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94103 USA.
Subscriptions are $29.97/year (US), $44.97/year (Canada), $42.97/year
(Mexico), $84.97/year (elsewhere, airmail). Send subscription inquiries
to Digital Video Magazine, Subscription Services, IMI, 501 Second St.,
4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107 USA; tel: 800-998-0806; email:
subs@dv.com
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES
The IAT has a new addition to our Information Resource Guides series:
"English Literature and Composition Resources on the Internet: Selected
Sites." The document is available on the World-Wide Web at URL
http://www.iat.unc.edu/guides/irg-30.html
or by anonymous FTP at URL
ftp://gandalf.iat.unc.edu/user/home/anonftp/guides/irg-30.txt
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