How to use ACEDB to show stuff via Mosaic:
Here's a URL
http://s27w007.pswfs.gov/Homepage/acedb-faq.html
Here's a fragment of a .ace file
Paper : acedb-faq.html
Pick_me_to_call : cci "http:\/\/s27w007.pswfs.gov/Homepage/acedb-faq.html"
Here's the script .../externalFiles/cci
#!/bin/csh
sshow -host my.machine's.FQDN -port 9999 -url $1
Now get Mosaic version 2.5 and retrieve sshow
(see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/CCI/cci-spec.html).
Start up Mosaic (v2.5) and pull down the file menu and
select "CCI...". Now start the program listening on port 9999 (say).
Now click on "Pick_me_to_call" and acedb will cause Mosaic
to display the FAQ.
(n.b. ACEDB thinks that // starts a comment, even within double
quotes! Is this a bug or a feature?)
Nice for image display, too.
You can get the library used to create sshow for your own
imaginative www-client-remote-control-by-TCP/IP pleasure.
--bks
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Bradley K. Sherman | Institute of Forest Genetics
bks at s27w007.pswfs.gov | P.O. Box 245
510-559-6437 FAX:510-559-6440 | Berkeley, CA 94701 USA
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