1. Re: Newbie seeks euphoria related help or direction
Thanks for your response, Irv.
Re: Turbo Basic - Once you understand it's hidden depths and appreciate the
real speed of TB it's very hard to give it up, but I think it might be time
now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu <EUPHORIA at
cwisserver1.mcs.muohio.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie seeks euphoria related help or direction
>At 03:25 PM 5/27/98 -0400, Peter Hartley wrote:
>>
>>Background:
>>I'm very very new to "sexy" euphoria but have a long established background
>>(21 years) in programming in Basic (I still use 12 year old Borland's Turbo
>>Basic because it is amazingly fast),
>
>Welcome! You'll like Euphoria = also fast, and *very flexible*.
>I didn't know anyone had a copy of Turbo Basic anymore.
>
>Sculptor 4GL and Unix shellscript. C has
>>always been a mystery to me (some bits seem illogical and inconsistent). I
am
>>heavily into WWW related stuff.
>>
>>Intent:
>>I want to create a Win95/98 application in Euphoria that will post data to
>>remote web-based CGI's and similar HTML type forms. I need to be able to
>>capture any responses that may be generated. This application can
pre-suppose
>>that a working 'net connection is established before it starts.
>>
>>Questions
>>Has anyone done anything of this sort already
>
>Euphoria for the Win95+++ platform is really
>new, so folks are still beating their heads against the
>win API. That will change soon, thanks to Dave Cuny's "wrapper".
>What you want to do should be possible, especially for someone
>who understands the web and cgi.
>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers that would help me get started
in
>>the right direction?
>>
>>Thanks to all in anticipation of a flood of useful advice. 
>
>Hope you don't mind a flood of questions in return :)
>
>Regards,
>
>Irv
>
