http://www.public.iastate.edu/info/tools.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
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.
webmaster@iastate.edu