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<article lang="&language;" id="cgi">
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<title
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>cgi</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts;&Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>The <acronym
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>CGI</acronym
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> slave provides a way to execute <acronym
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>CGI</acronym
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> programs without the need to have a running web server. This can for example be used for local testing of <acronym
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>CGI</acronym
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> programs or for using search engines that only provide a <acronym
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>CGI</acronym
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> frontend like the one from <application
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>Doxygen</application
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>.</para>
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<para
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>The slave implements the <command
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>cgi:</command
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> protocol. It uses the filename from the given &URL; and searches a configurable list of folders. If it finds an executable with the given name it executes it, passes the arguments of the &URL; and sets the environment variables needed by <acronym
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>CGI</acronym
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> programs.</para>
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</article>
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