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USEFUL TOOLS FOR THE GN ADMINISTRATOR Over time, we've built up a toolbox of utilities to help administer our gn server. This page discusses some of the tools we've written. All these items may be downloaded from ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools. mkmenus - Automatic menu file maker. One feature of gn is that it exports only those items explicitly authorized by the .cache file. This feature, however, becomes a chore for directories that merely archive a bunch documents that don't need any fancy titles or access control. The mkmenus utility automatically scans directories and constructs menu files for the directory contents. * The mkmenus script is available as: ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools/mkmenus * Manual page source is at: ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools/mkmenus.1. cgi-postin - Web forms made easy. Web forms can be a useful addition to your server, but they can be a pain in the butt to develop. In particular, it can be a real chore writing CGI processors -- the back-end program that handles the form data. The cgi-postin program was designed to let you write CGI processors simply (and securely) as sh scripts. The current release has preliminary support for perl too. * "CGI made E-Z with cgi-postin" is an application note that describes this utility. The note includes several interactive examples that build Web forms and processors using cgi-postin. * The cgi-postin source is available as: ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools/cgi-postin.c. pwmenu - Password protect gn menus. pwmenu adds password-protection to gn menus. When a menu is called via pwmenu, the user will be prompted for and must enter a correct password before gn will provide them the menu. * "Adding Password Protection to gn Menus" is an application note that describes how to use this utility. * We have a demonstration that shows how pwmenu works. * The pwmenu script is available as: ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools/pwmenu. mksheet - Generate contact sheet of GIFs. This simple little script generates an HTML "contact sheet" of all the GIF images in a directory. This is nice if you collect all of your images into one repository, and would like an HTML sheet that displays all the graphics you've collected. * The mksheet script is available as: ftp.unicom.com:/pub/gn-tools/mksheet. _________________________________________________________________ Chip Rosenthal $Id: gn-tools.html,v 1.33 1997/01/08 09:45:44 chip Exp $ .