Hi all,

I try to avoid egregious advertising here, but I'd like to
announce something that was fun for me to write...

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We have a free demo of HourGlass 2000 for the HP 3000 available
from our web site, at:

   http://www.allegro.com/hourglass2000/index.html#DEMO

What was the fun part?  If you install it and run it, HourGlass will
ask for permission and (if you say "Yes"), will download an
authorization code over the web!   (If you say "No", you'll
need to email us you HPSUSAN, and we'll email you an authorization
code.)  (The authorization code is good for one week.)

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For the curious, HourGlass requests a cgi-bin page from our
HP 3000 based web server (the Open Market Web Server).  The
CGI program is written in C.  It does a CREATEPROCESS on a
non-C utility program that generates the authorization code.  The
CGI program sends information to the non-C program via the INFO
string, and gets information back via a flat file.  (We never
succeeded in getting a non-C CGI program to work correctly,
probably due to stdin/stdout redirection issues.)

The whole CGI experience made me wish I was running QWEBS,
from http://www.qss.com/Sales/QWEBS/pqwebs.htm

Someday I'll get Michael Hensley to write up the problems we
encountered trying to build a close-to-universally usable install
file!  We found bugs, er, design-features, in uuencode/uudecode,
most browsers, Reflection, and others.

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
                                     http://www.allegro.com/sieler.html