Hello!

According to Fred:

I'd like to use GPC for some simple CGIs I'm writing for my own server.

To accomplish this I need to know how to:

1. Read from various environment variables like $QUERY_STRING.
2. Read from Standard Input.

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

Here's a litte demo program (i learn best with demo programs :-). It declares the "getenv" function itself and doesn't need any other unit. But there is a "bpcompat" unit for that and a lot of other useful things.

{$x+} (* <- Enable extended syntax *) PROGRAM cgi1(Input, Output); TYPE tStr255 = String(255);

FUNCTION GetEnv(Name : pChar):pChar; C; (* get access to the getenv funktion in c rtl *)

VAR St : tStr255;

BEGIN (* write some environment variables *) WriteLn(' TERM : ', GetEnv('TERM')); WriteLn(' SHELL: ', GetEnv('SHELL'));

(* now echo all stdin *) WHILE NOT Eof(Input) DO BEGIN ReadLn(Input, St); WriteLn('>>', St); END; END.

Hope this helps,

Achim