[HECnet] OT: CGI parameters in CSWS?

Mon Oct 5 20:18:00 PDT 2009

Nothing wrong with *, just that you won't get other tables like that.
There are some tables that are shown by default, if you don't specify otherwise. Also, by default, all tables are searched when you try to translate a symbol, and they are searched in a specific order, so that you can "overwrite" system values with your own versions without affecting other users. And this is done in several levels, so that you have a login logical table, and a process logical table, and a group logical table, and so on...

When you write programs, you can specify that you don't want to search certain tables as well.

So, for your scripts, you weren't examining the right tables, but when you wanted translations done, the symbols were found somewhere anyway, even if you didn't examine those tables explicitly. :-)

	Johnny

Sampsa Laine wrote:
Doh. I stupidly did SHOW SYMBOL *.   Oh well, live and learn.
Sampsa
On 5 Oct 2009, at 20:13, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Try SHOW SYMBOL/ALL instead. :-)

      Johnny

Sampsa Laine wrote:
Erm, no I wasn't - this is all new to me, much like Classical Arabic grammar :)
I managed to get enough pages out of the "Writing Real Programs in DCL" on Google Books to make it work though.
Sampsa
On 5 Oct 2009, at 19:43, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You are aware that there are more tables than just the LOCAL and SYSTEM
tables, do you?

    Johnny

Sampsa Laine wrote:
Turns out that they were defined after all, but just now shown by the SHOW SYMBOL commands. Oh well. It works.
Sampsa
On 5 Oct 2009, at 18:53, Steve Davidson wrote:
Sampsa,
I would take a look at logicals.   They may actually be using them instead.   Most of my scripts use logicals so that it doesn't matter where the script is run from.
-Steve

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Sorry about the less-than-entirely-relevant question, feel free to ignore, but I am confused, yet again.

I'm trying to write a quick script to search a file and output the results, in HTML, over HTTP, so I've decided to use a small DCL script with the CSWS web server on OpenVMS 8.3. I can't figure out where CSWS sticks the CGI parameters however, the book says they're meant to be defined as symbols, but this is what my script sees:

SHOW SYMBOL/LOCAL *
P1 = ""
P2 = ""
P3 = ""
P4 = ""
P5 = ""
P6 = ""
P7 = ""
P8 = ""
SHOW SYMBOL/GLOBAL *
$FACILITY == "%X00000001"
$IDENT == "%X00000000"
$RESTART == "FALSE"
$SEVERITY == "1"
$STATUS == "%X00010001"
APACHE$DCL_BIN == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_BIN.EXE"
APACHE$DCL_CMD == "@APACHE$COMMON:[CGI-BIN.FIDONODES]FINDNODE.COM"
APACHE$DCL_ENV == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_ENV.EXE"
APACHE$DCL_RUN == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_RUN.EXE"
APACHE$FLIP_CCL == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$SET_CCL.EXE"
APACHE$SET_CCL == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$SET_CCL.EXE"
HTTPD == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$HTTPD.EXE"
PHP == "$ PHP_ROOT:[BIN]PHP.EXE"
SAY == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT"

Where did QUERYSTRING etc go?
Here's the script ( http://rhesus.sampsa.com/cgi-bin/fidonodes/findnode.com?q=foo ) :

$ write sys$output "content-type: text/html"
$ write sys$output ""
$ write sys$output "<html><hr /><pre>"
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "SHOW SYMBOL/LOCAL *"
$ show symbol/local *
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "SHOW SYMBOL/GLOBAL *"
$ show symbol/global *

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Johnny Billquist                                   || "I'm on a bus
                                                                ||   on a psychedelic trip
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-- 
Johnny Billquist                                   || "I'm on a bus
                                                                  ||   on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se                         ||   Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                                         ||   tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol