RE: CGI Beginner

Get IBM's CGIDEV2 library; it's a MAJOR productivity aid.  Also, get Brad
Stone's eRPG book(s).  Use CODE/400 for source and HTML editing.  There is
tons of information available in the Internet.

When you get started, your progress might be slow.  It won't be on account
of the RPG programming; it will be HTML issues and the environment
(transient programs).  Be prepared to do things differently.

For example, in a "regular" inquiry program, you might have two formats in
the display file: a prompt and a detail display.  With CGI and HTML, there
are many ways of handling this (one hunk of HTML, two hunks, one program
driving both hunks, one program per hunk, etc.) and none seem to be better
than any of the others.

None of this is complicated as long as you remember some of the quirky stuff
like needing a blank line after the "content=text/html" statement...

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Hi Everyone,

    I am a new beginner to CGI Programming. I have been programming in RPG
IV for quite a while and decided we needed to move our company into the
world wide web and away from the green screen. Can someone point me in the
right direction on tutorials. I have read IBM's Web Programming guide, It is
still a little to complicated.

Thanks,
Justin Houchin
Programmer
Reliatek, Inc
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