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Obtaining user input in DCL CGI script?

April 26, 2017CGI DCL input Script user

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Obtaining user input in DCL CGI script?

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If you choose to use the GET method, then the form data is available in the DCL symbol QUERY_STRING, in URL-encoded format. If you use the POST method, then you need to read the form data from stdin. For a DCL CGI script running under the Netscape FastTrack web server, you can read the data using the following READ command: $ READ SYS$COMMAND postdata to read the information in. The following describes the use of DCL command procedures as CGI scripts with the OSU web server: o http://www.levitte.org/~ava/cgiscripts_other.htmlx 13-20 Finding and using Software DCL CGI is also discussed in the Writing Real Programs in DCL book, and in the Ask The Wizard website.