Dean Hamstead wrote:
'expect' might help you script it
if you cant get at source and need to bolt some cgi ontop of the curses
Actually it looks like a curses app but it's actually a "Transportable Applications
Environment" app which is a thing developed by NASA in the 1980's. But it looks the
same on screen and behaves the same. Yes expect would interact with it.
Either way as soon as users see it they think "It's DOS" and run.
On Fri, June 2, 2006 12:58 pm, Michael Lake wrote:
I'm currently helping a student process the raw data from these missions.
I download
the data and the processing software runs on Linux. Even better, Linux is
the
development and main platform for doing this stuff. I can take about 45
minutes to
process a batch of data and eventually end up with tiff files about 80-200
MBytes in
size using a dual xeon with lots of ram. She has 600 images to do.
The interface is a curses application and in fact I was wondering last
night if I can
work out someway to automatically generate a web-based app from the
curses app i.e.
have a perl cgi app that passes its commands to an an instance of the
curses app, the
output of the curses screen being transformed into a html form to the
user.
This would enable the student to run the software via aweb interface
without needing
a login to the Linux processing machine.
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