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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Yes, I was using notepad as my editor to
make my files!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Notepad is in general a good editor to
use. For instance it worked in making .pl files that tested correctly for hello
world in my command line.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>But I will follow your tip as notepad may
have its limitations here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hard to think of what else to use. I do
have PSpad installed if I wanted to use something a bit fancier. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>John <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Ian Macdonald [mailto:ickphum@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 21 August 2008
5:54 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> John Thornton<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Jacinta Richardson;
melbourne-pm@pm.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Melbourne-pm]
interesting apache outcome</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:49 PM, John Thornton <<a
href="mailto:jdthornton@ozemail.com.au">jdthornton@ozemail.com.au</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hmm..<br>
<br>
I did as you suggested and got:<br>
<br>
Object not found!<br>
<br>
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL<br>
manually please check your spelling and try again.<br>
<br>
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.<br>
Error 404<br>
localhost<br>
08/21/08 17:44:37<br>
Apache/2.2.9 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8h mod_autoindex_color<br>
PHP/5.2.6<br>
<br>
***************<br>
So I don't know. It seems to me that there is one difference between the<br>
files that have succeeded as CGI browser formats in the explore CGI box:<br>
<br>
the successful ones are listed as CGI files whereas the ones I tried such as<br>
hello.cgi are still listed as text documents.<br>
<br>
Thanks anyway<br>
Any more suggestions and I will try them out.<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
John</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
That sounds interesting; what editor are you using to create the files? It
sounds like it might be Notepad or something else that likes to silently add
.txt to all file names.<br>
<br>
In the explorer window, go to the Tools menu and choose Folder Options. Now
select the View tab and find "Hide extensions for known file types"
and make sure this is not ticked. Click Apply, Ok, refresh the window and see
if some of the files now display as name.cgi.txt. If so, remove the
".txt" part and try again.<br>
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-- <br>
Ian Macdonald<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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