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[MacPerl] Target frames (more...)



Hi all,
I am sorry for the mess I created with my previous posting (mea culpa).
The thing is that I didn't explain my self enough. So here you are:
1) The right url for Ret Crocker's code is at:
http://www.intellimedia.com/bag/explanation.html
Follow his link back to the "bag'o'tricks" to see what it is he succeeds.
2)Basically there are two frames.On the left there is a shockwave movie
that serves like the user interface. When the user makes a choice, the
right frame gets updated. Since the only useful command in shockwave is
"gotoNetPage", the only way to target a DIFFERENT frame from the one that the
shockwave itself is running in, is to use a cgi that is trigered from the
shockwave on the left frame (gotoNetPage "target_frame.cgi?url="..;target=..)

So unless I am terribly mistaken, the mac-perl list is the right place to
address my questions and hopefully get some help.

Some mac-perl questions then:
1) When saving a script as an MacHTTP acgi, do I have to install MacPerl in
the cgi directory? 
2) I've noticed in several cgi scripts posted here that the statement
$ENV{'Re
quest_Method'} etc, is also writen with double qouotes ("Request_Method"). Is it that double qouotes are used for MacPerl?

For those of you who take the time to check Crocker's code:
What I'm trying to do is use Sandra Silcot's adaptation of Stece Brenner's
cgi-lib. That lib (cgi-mac-lib) was posted by Sandra Silcot on 7 Aug 1995,
as a working example for acgi scripting.

Sandra asks all us newbies to "...install Matthias' CGI glue first...".
I know I'm terrible but I don't understand which file she is reffering to.

Sorry for the length of this mail. I hope it will be received with 
sympathy :-)
Apostolos Logaras
Design for Interactive Media
Middlesex University