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Re: [ECS] CGI advice needed Dario Greggio Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:30:37 +0100

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I agree also with this:
 
> I guess the biggest question to be answered is: What is your target user. Is
> it for the general public, or for a bunch of techies like us who don't mind
> learning HTML, Perl, etc.? If for the former, then you might want to
> consider making some "wizards" to generate the client-side screens in HTML
> (or whatever).

But...
"Steven M. Eaton" wrote:
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> I want to ask how will this work for the people that do not have a network
> interface in their pc or do not have a dialup connection into the internet?
> There will be a lot of people that have a network in their home, but also a
> lot that do not. Just a thought.

Yes, you are right, but in the future EVERYone will have!
And, by now, client-server ECS could run on the same machine. So, it
will be a good approach even if you have only one PC.
 
> Any thoughts on how to best make ECS a web server ?
> MS VC++ has support for this, but I would like to find
> a system-independent solution (if possible).

Apart from sockets, you will simply use standard C++. It should be not
so bad.

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