Hi all, adding to Frank's question, I also got one along the same topic:

I've just written a cgi prog in Cobol using Lars example.  I like it, it
works quickly but the fact is, the program runs, opens the database, does
its stuff, then terminates which closes the database.  At least that's the
way I figure it's working.  Is there a way to avoid the constant open/close
of the db given that web activity is a stateless matter?

I'm sure Java has a means of doing this, but can it be done in another
language???

Thanks
jds

Frank wrote:
>
> I am working with APACHE 1.3.4 on my 928 under 6.5 and have been
> investigating the BASIC V Interpreter as a CGI tool.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> callci basic BTEST
>
> No harassment please ... It loads very quickly and is already IMAGE-
> enabled.
>
> When reading the results of an HTML POST, my program only receives the
> first ~88 bytes / 44 words of data.  For this test, I've tried reading
> STDIN & STDINX with variations of :
>
>   200 DIM R$(240)
>   210 FILES *
>   220 SYSTEM H2,"FILE IN1234=$STDIN;REC=-240,1,F,ASCII"
>   230 ASSIGN "IN1234",1,H2
>   240 LINPUT #1;R$
>
>