[Xitami] #exec cmd= in Win XP

[Marc Doigny]

At 20:03 11/12/03, "Charles Duval" <ch_duval@hotmail.com> wrote:

To begin with, just create a simple executable that displays the time.
If it can do that, you can go further.



>        shell "c:\windows\system32\xcopy.exe d:\xitami\toramdsk\*.* r:\ /e
>/y /h /d"

tmp$ = ENVIRON$("TEMP")      to locate the temp directory.
                              You can also hard-code it.
cmd$ = ENVIRON$("COMSPEC")   to locate the command interpreter directory
SHELL cmd$ + " /c c:\windows\system32\xcopy .... >>" + tmp$ + "\xxx.tmp"

Xitami evokes executables in the console subsystem (an empty space), while 
running a program from the command prompt actually runs the program as an 
argument of the command interpreter (that is, the command interpreter is 
always available in command prompt mode)

You have to specify where the output goes.
Simply printing it to screen won't work - Xitami does not display a console 
screen, it can even cause your application to fail, waiting for a screen to 
print to that never is available.

fileout$ = ENVIRON$("CGI_STDOUT") that's the file Xitami is expecting
DIM file AS QFileStream
File.Open(fileout$, fmOpenWrite)
File.Write("<html><body>Copying files to Ramdisk<pre>")

Now add the content of tmp$ + "\xxx.tmp" to the output stream (don't know 
how to do that in this dialect)
Seems you can only have one stream open at any given moment.


and terminate:
File.Write("</pre>FINISHED</body></html>")
File.Close

Basically, Xitami is just a fileserver. Whenever a user request a page, 
Xitami delivers it using the correct protocols. When the requested page is 
a CGI,
    Xitami sets some environment variables,
    calls the application,
    waits for it to terminate,
    send the generated output (a file) to the user.

RapidQ is an interpreted language, meaning it's not well suited for cgi 
applications.
Each time your application is started, it must be compiled before execution.
Not very important for desktop applications (these applications are only 
started once a day and the user can wait some seconds), but of great 
importance if you have a web site that relies on cgi.