Curtis Thompson
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hello…
due to a lot of lack of time on my side, eric bliss has re-written the cow back to his original cgi format – the server was very overloaded, and he has put his version back in place to help out with that, so it’s now a cgi world once again… :-/
alas i just haven’t had the free time that i once had…doh!
sitruc
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crazy! i didn’t know that…that script has been around for years and is the de-facto cgi mail script everywhere, but that never crossed my mind…
oh well – ok then. chris, if you’re interested, contact me personally and i’ll write you a quick one…or i think i have an old one laying around somewhere that i could send you…it’s pretty straightforward scripting…
sitruc
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hello…
that’s a hard one – web writing will be very different if you’re writing a how-to manual or the likes, but other than that, i don’t know if i’d easily be able to classify a style that would be more “web-esque”…certainly the style of writing that will appeal to the younger generation will vary greatly from what appeals to older generations, but that would hold true outside of the web as well…
writing non-creative content for the web takes more from the web model itself, and it’s important to compartmentalize your writing at that point to help keep it focused to the section that you’re writing for (and then use links to keep the user moving around – less dead ends and single diatribes, i guess)…
what type of web writing are you focusing on? technical or creative?
sitruc
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haven’t used that script in years, but if i recall the instructions that he provided were about as good as they could be for the script…but i can try on a few of these…
[Chris Huggett] “First off, it says that i need to adjust the top line of script to match the location of your perl interpreter. Whats the interpreter? “
i don’t know how familiar you are w/ unix, but a think of it like a .exe (and in windows, it is an exe file)…it’s just the engine that gets run when this script is run. look in your isp docs, but 99% of the time, it’s either /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl – if your server is nt, then you might need to find a different mail server script. i can’t recall if that one is set up to run on windows as well…
[Chris Huggett] “i have looked at the files on the server, and apart from my files which i have uploaded, there is no other file nor folder for me to use”
sorry – i don’t follow you on this one…this script should go in your cgi-bin dir…
[Chris Huggett] “THe @referers variable, is this where i put my isp and the location of this isp?”
can’t recall that specific field, but whatever they tell you to put there. referers are how email servers verify and help control spam, so that could vary depending on how the server mail server is set up…
[Chris Huggett] “Using DW, i created an insert form command, then inserted a button into this area. In the Action command of the form, is this where i put the name of my cgi script.”
yup… 🙂
sitruc
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any other scripting languages available? almost all plans support at least one cgi language like perl…
if so, then this old chestnut would work:
https://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
sitruc
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hello…
ahh yes – my bad. i now realize what that shortcut does on windows (i have xp, too – just don’t use that feature)…sorry about that.
ya – apple has had a long-standing usability tradition of leaving that extra layer of a trash can for your convenience so that you have that safety layer. you can pretty quickly empty your trash if you’re in the finder by hitting shift-apple-backspace (and then disabling the warning dialog via finder preferences -> advanced)…or if you have the 2-button mouse (and if you don’t, get one), you can right click on the trash in the dock and click empty trash…
but sorry – no forced override on the delete… :-/
sitruc
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for all intensive purposes, the item is gone once you delete it from the trash (use “secure empty trash” to scramble the file and really really delete it from your drive)…it’s hard to say what the most “efficient” way would be to keep copies of old files, though, as that’s sort of a personal preference thing. i don’t ever put things in the trash that i might want later (even if i don’t empty it) just because i will undoubtedly end up accidently deleting something…
sitruc
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have you tried doing a “get info” (ctrl/right click on file or file ->get info) and picking a different app for the file?
(and then do a “change all” in that same dialog)
sitruc
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if the printer itself is a network printer (hard to guess but i’d say probably not) then when you plugged it into the airport it has an ip that you can connect to it with (not a regular airport user, so i can’t recall if you can get a list of currently connected devices via the control panel – if so, then you could get it’s network name and ip that way)…
if not, then you should connect it directly to one computer on your network and set that box up to share the printer with other boxes…
if you happen to have an airport extreme and some way to convert the signal to usb, you could try this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107456
otherwise, sharing printers is discussed here:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25397
hope that helps!
sitruc
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i’d guess that maybe it’s some sort of issue related to the boxes having the same ip given to them when they are plugged in – so the first one plugged in gets the only available ip and then when the others get plugged in they have no ip to use…
it’s really hard to say, though, with the info you provided – not really your fault, but there’s a lot more that would go into troubleshooting that can’t be determined here…
do you have a dhcp server somewhere in the line? and are all your boxes set up to request an address when they get plugged in?
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