1. Newbie seeks euphoria related help or direction
Greetings.
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), 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 (I hate re-inventing someone
else's wheel!)
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. 
Peter (BotMaster) Hartley
Imaginative solutions for the netrepreneur.
http://hartley.on.ca/ & http://xtra.nu/nugget/
2. 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
3. Re: Newbie seeks euphoria related help or direction
>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 (I hate re-inventing someone
>else's wheel!)
>Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers that would help me get started
in
>the right direction?
Irv has experimented alot about Euphoria and CGI's, check his web page.
I've used wininet.dll to establish PPP conections and doing some FTP. Visit
RDS's page, User Contributions, file euftp01.zip. I suggest you go to
Microsoft site and get WinInet API reference.
Regards,
Daniel Berstein
daber at pair.com
