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Local Tools and Utilities

Local Tools and Utilities

Statcounter

A statcounter is available on the stats page to grep for your favorite entries in the stat files which are generated from the access logs.

Feedback Forms

A generalized feedback utility allows any user of the public homepage server to create an infinite number of feedback forms that use electronic mail to relay the comments to the maintainer.

Imagemaps

Imagemaps now work on the public homepage server. See the documentation at NCSA for more information.

Anonymous FTP

There are now instructions available for providing access to a Project Vincent anonymous ftp directory.

Conversion Utilities

The following tools are available in the 'www' locker. If you've got something that works, please let me know.

weblint v1.001
Weblint is a perl script which checks html pages for the World-Wide Web. For more information, issue this command at the Project Vincent prompt:
	vincent% weblint -U
A online manual page is available. The files /home/www/doc/README.weblint and /home/www/doc/weblint.ps are also provided.
txt2html
A quick Perl script I put together to process the OLC Stock Answers. It just wraps a PRE around the text and escapes some special characters.
rman
Reverse compiles man pages from formatted form to a number of source formats. Check out the manual page for more info.
hl2html
Converts a Mosaic hotlist to an HTML document. To list the options, issue the following command at the Project Vincent prompt:
	vincent% hl2html -h
latex2html
Converts latex documents to html.
html2latex
Converts html documents to latex.
htmlpty
Makes your HTML files pretty.

Server Scripts

Users of this service will not have the option of providing their own scripts to be run by the server. (big security hole) However, if demand is large enough. Some general purpose utilities will be provided.

Project Vincent Finger Gateway
Provides finger information for Project Vincent users.
Example Usage:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/finger?supah http://www.public.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/finger?supah@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/finger?Upah
Project Vincent iwho Gateway
Provides information on which Project Vincent machines a user is logged into.
Example Usage:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/iwho?jdwhite
Project Vincent zlocate Gateway
Check to see if a Project Vincent user is subscribed to Zephyr.
Example Usage:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/zlocate?jdwhite
Server Uptime Info
Uptime information for the Public Homepage Server www.public.iastate.edu.
Project Vincent Message of the Day
Provides current Project Vincent Message of the Day.

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