Re: do I need to know C to get server side applications working under webserver???

Franz Maruna wrote:
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> Do I really have to write or find a C program just to run r25run.exe on
> my NT server so i can display the html generated report that oracle says
> is so easy to interface with the web? Shouldn't there be some support
> for running existing applications on the server? I don't need ANY
> interface at all, since all the paramaters will have been written to a
> table through a form. I just need to launch the report with the proper
> paramaters and then I can use serverside includes to display the report.
> Is there any help for me?

  Yes. You need to write a CGI to invoke the execution of r25run. The output can be generated as a PDF format (you need a patch). Then, you can display the PDF to web page.

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