----------------------------------------------------------------- d:\zap\telnet.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- telnet to shell.netway.com login: keef/kuefler two major directories: public_html - the doc root cgi-bin - the physical cgi-bin directory (but in HTML you refer to this as /scripts) more or less mirrored on Joe's PC: (NT login: Administrator/velocity) d:\web\ridgeware\public_html d:\web\ridgeware\cgi-bin d:\zap -- everything else concerning the company ................................................................ TODOS: [ ] scrape more information off competitor sites [ ] add columns to database as needed [ ] scan The Standard magazine [ ] determine more periodicals that we need right now [ ] potentially call ISPs about pricing: 2 ultra10's (be clever and get keynote's sys arch) [ ] spec and/or write some programs d:\zap\features.xls ................................................................ comp-edit : this is the sh script which presents the HTML form for ADDing and EDITing a competitor ADD : $action=new, $CorpSite does not need to be set EDIT : $action=edit, $CorpSite needs to be set (e.g. "llbean") Sh tips: if you break the script you can debug it from the unix cmdline a little bit and watch HTML to stdout. comp-commit : this is the perl script which grabs zillions of HTML form variables from an HTML POST and throws them into the "database." The datafile for (say) "llbean" is ./data/llbean. Each time the datafile is overwritten, a twiddle backup is made. comp-show : this is the sh script which generates the competitor listing pages. 3 key variables: $CorpNames -- show the basic info $CorpDetails -- show the corporation details $ProdDetails -- show the product details You will notice that these get passed around (propogated) to other scripts (like the ones above) so that your current view of the competitor data is retained after an EDIT+COMMIT sequence. menu : this is the god-aweful ugly menu in perl, improve it but don't break it analyze : this is the script which parses a web site URL, but it does not seem to work from the menu yet (only cmdline). ...............................................................................