I'm sorry this is so long winded. I'm hoping it will help you understand my motivation...
I am a necessity programer. I don't sell my programs, I program as a systems analyst to achieve results for my employer. I have developed fairly complex solutions in FileMaker and I can program in VB, Lua and I've even written a few "C" utilities (Text manipulation). I've written with PHP and Perl for web. And, as part of my job, I have to create reports from a legacy Cobol system using ODBC and Linux shell scripting. The problem is, I really don't know any one of these programming languages "fluently" :) When I switch between them (sometimes within the same day), I'm always having to get out a book and refresh my memory about certain syntax. Sure, I can remember most of the basics of program flow (If, then, else) between each one, but even then I sometimes type it wrong and have to go back and edit after it gets an error. SO, I thought I would try finding a language I can can call the "one programming language I'll ever need". Along comes Rev (a couple of years ago for me) and I really felt like it would be a good candidate. I can program for Mac, Win, Web, Linux, Mobile devices... you guys know all that. However, a CONSIDERABLE amount of my programming is in Unix Shell script. We have a legacy accounting system running on SCO Openserver (We are changing over to Linux in 2011). I have a full EDI interface to one of our suppliers written in "bash" shell script AND I NEED it to be a shell type process in order for it to work for me. (nightly cron, headless computer, etc.) SO!!! The 'last' feature of Rev/LiveCode I need to be able to address is the ability to run LIKE a Linux shell script. I've read how to get the runtime working as a CGI and played around enough that I 'can' (seemingly) make it work from a shell with the "#!revolution -ui" declaration on the first line. However, when I get to some of the higher level features (FTP, ODBC, etc) I start getting errors. I was researching how to possibly resolve these issues (need libraries, etc) when I found that Rev 3.5 is the last version to support the ability to run as a CGI. Now, my questions... 1) Am I dreaming? Should I just move to Perl or something else and forget about Rev as a shell language? 2) I know LiveCode 4.5 can't do the CGI. Would it work for a shell script (some UI/Graphical features obviously not available) 3) If so, can someone point me to some documentation on how to set it up correctly. 4) My first test was to try FTPing a file (needed for EDI) and I get errors when it can't locate libURLftpUploadFile. Where is this library and where "should" I put it on the Linux box? 5) I've got an Enterprise License. Is this in violation of my license in any way? Thanks Bill _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
