[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Windows: where's the documentation?

[root]

> > The point is that the list of domains which are of a certain category is
> > created dynamically. If I start a fresh axiom session, compile a spad file
> > which contains some new Ring, say MyWonderfulPhantasticRing it will be
> > listed by HyperDoc automatically.
> 
> Lots of software out there feature a built-in web server so that a browser 
> can 
> act as the control. Axiom could do the same for the documentation, system 
> settings and other automation features.

The asq function was intended for non-X platforms so we could
still deliver the information without running Axiom.

I'm not much of a cgi-bin hacker but it seems to me that 
some simple C hacking and a command line option would enable
the output to be placed in html tables which could somehow
allow point-and-click for additional lookups. Memory fails
me but there is some way of constructing POST or GET around
items in tables so that you could click on table entries.
I'll have to look at my html reference book for details.

Indeed if the constructed html could pass algebra expressions
back to the cgi-bin then it could run axiom, capture the output,
and send it back.

The source is in src/etc/asq.c.pamphlet. There is some documentation
but I guess I thought the structure of the databases as random access
files was "obvious". I'll clearly have to update the documentation :-)

I wrote some detailed documentation about the database file format
somewhere on this list a couple weeks ago. I'll try to find it and
add it to the literate documentation of asq.


t