From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP & CGI, I found an easier way!
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 18:36:57 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:

>*A*:  If you are using a Windows Web server, it probably won't work.  The
>reason is that Windows programs cannot easily redirect standard input and
>output of DOS programs (because DOS programs are run by Windows in a
>different "Virtual Machine"), and many Windows Web servers don't consider
>the case of a DOS CGI program, and don't bother to include the machinery
>necessary to do the redirection in a way that would work for DOS programs.
>So the output of your program never gets to the server.
>
>
>Consult the docs of the server: it might include some feature that enables
>redirection from DOS programs.  If that doesn't help, rebuild your CGI
>program with a Windows compiler, such as Mingw32 or Lcc-Win32 (see free
>Win32 compilers in "MS-Windows applications and DJGPP"), and it will work.

http://www.mingw.org/

So here would probably be a nice project for somebody to do:
Write a Windows wrapper around DOS that simply turns DOS CGI programs
into Windows CGI programs.  It would simply call a DOS program and
route the output from its virtual machine to Windows's stdout.


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