VFPINET Frequently Asked Questions

(Q) When I load the VFPINET.HTM file it comes up okay, but when I try to load one of the links to a CGI script, I get a dialog saying that the file cannot be found. What is going on here?

(A) Make sure that you are loading your html files through a Web Server, preferably EMWAC's https. If you open the html files as local files, they will load okay, and any graphics will probably load as well. However, in order for scripts to work properly, you must connect to them through the web server. If you have installed https properly and its data directory contains VFPINET.HTM, then you should be able to run everything correctly with the url:
http://localhost/vfpinet.htm
or:
http://localhost/vfpinet.htm

(Q)I am a Compuserve user, and I have been using their Spry Mosaic to surf the 'net on my NT machine. But when I load https and try to contact my own machine, it dials Compuserve okay, but cannot find my host.

(A)Compuserve has replaced your WINSOCK.DLL with its own version. Because this WINSOCK.DLL does not speak with WSOCK32.DLL (I am getting out of my league here!!!), it cannot access any of the IP addresses which 32-bit apps can, including your own machine.
Your best bet would be to replace WINSOCK.DLL with the original one on your install disks, and set up SLIP using Windows NT RAS. This way, you will be able to use 32-bit winsock apps over RAS, one of which happens to be https. See the icon "Remote Access and the Internet", installed with Windows NT RAS.

(Q)xbase.pl is pretty cool, but I need it to do more. Do you have any perl subroutines to read indexes, or perl

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