Re: [cobalt-users] CGI Script wwwcount2.5

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Oh I am *so* confused now. CGI is supposed to be uploaded in ASCII...
>
> Ehm, no.
>
> You seem to have misunderstood the term "CGI". CGI is just a protocol that
> determines how a program and a webserver may "talk to eachother". It says
> nothing about the filetype.

No, I haven't misunderstood the term CGI - I know what it is... Common
Gateway Interface; it's a protocol on the machine that is used to interface
the client-side with server-side operations. Most commonly used with the
Perl language.

I keep forgetting that I'm talking to a Linux list, but really, did I *have*
to say "cgi *****SCRIPTS***** are supposed..." ??
You don't truly think that I thought you could upload CGI itself, did you??
Tell me you didn't think that this is what I meant, you were just .... I'm
not sure. *L*

I'm gonna just drop this thread now before I get pissy over someone parsing
my words and responding as if I'm an idiot, rather than responding to what I
said - in the context of what I said...

Sometimes I'm not sure how to talk to you guys. If I talk plainly,
person-to-person, assuming that my post will be read in its entirety and the
message as a whole will be taken, the "newbies" send me thank you notes and
the "gurus" tear me apart for missing one word in a sentence where the point
I was trying to make was still perfectly clear.
If I talk as if I'm speaking to "gurus", then over half of the people who
read my post won't have a freaking clue what I'm talking about. I'll just
end up confusing them more and losing them in the details.

Don't forget guys, most of the people on this list are "newbies". They need
to grasp the general concept of something - the idea of it and how it
works - before they can start getting technical.
If you tell them that the order is: stick the key in the ignition, turn it,
and the car starts running, they'll grasp that. Then once they've got that
down, they'll move on to the more specific stuff.
But if you tell them, right off the bat, that the order is: stick the key in
the ignition, turn it to unlock the steering wheel and give power to the
starter, turning it and in turn, rotating the flywheel connected to the
crankshaft, which moves the pistons up and down, which is in turn, rotating
the cam shaft, engaging the fuel pump and sending fuel to the carbuerator,
dispersing it through the intake and the valves to the combustion chamber in
the cylinders. Then the coil cause the spark plugs to ignite the fuel and
drive the piston down, starting the engine and simultaneously turning the
oil pump and pulling 5.0 quarts of oil from the oil pan to lubricate said
pistons, cam shaft, and all over moving parts...
blah blah blah...
...you'll lose them right off the bat.

I hope I made my point.
If not, fuggedaboutid.

CarrieB - owner of a classic Mustang 302 which is a *real* 5.0...  ;)
(302 cid if you want to get picky, and 4.96 or so litres - so there)