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Contents:

• FrontPage Developer's Kit Documentation
  describes how to create Templates and Wizards for FrontPage 1.0
• Sample Web Wizard
  written in Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0
• Template Maker
  creates FrontPage web templates from content in local web server
• Support for CGI-WIN Interface on 32-bit Windows Web Servers
  utility allows you to develop Visual Basic CGI programs without native CGI-WIN support

If you don't have the PKUNZIP software, see the PKWARE web site, or download version 2.04g.

FrontPage Developer's Kit Documentation

Explains how to create wizards and templates for use with FrontPage 1.0.

ZIP format, MS Word document, 36K.

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Sample Web Wizard

1. Create a new directory on your local disk called SAMPWIZ.
2. Download the zip file for VB 3.0 (179K) or VB 4.0 (116K), saving it into the SAMPWIZ directory. You may need to shift-click on this link, depending on how your browser is configured.
3. Unpack the zip file, using PKUNZIP from PKWARE Inc.
4. The Visual Basic project REALEST.MAK creates a program called the Real Estate Web Wizard. This wizard builds and uploads a sample web containing information on how to buy a home. Open the file REALEST.MAK using Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 or 4.0 as appropriate, and use the Make EXE option under the File menu to create REALEST.EXE.
5. To test the Real Estate Web Wizard, create a new directory called REALEST.WIZ underneath the WEBS directory where FrontPage was installed. Typically this is C:\VERMEER\WEBS.
6. Copy the files REALEST.INF, REALEST.EXE, REALEST.INI, and MASTHEAD.GIF into the REALEST.WIZ directory. If you use File Manager to copy the files, hold down the Control key when doing the drag-and-drop operation to force copying, otherwise all the files will be moved.
7. In the FrontPage Explorer, choose the File->New Web... menu option. You should see an entry called "Real Estate Web Wizard". Choose it. After the Explorer creates a new web for you, the wizard program will be launched and its main dialog will appear. Answer the questions, and then press the Finish button to have the wizard generate your web and upload it to the server.
8. See what the finished web looks like using a web browser.

If you want to try modifying the program, each main module (*.BAS) has an associated text file (*.TXT) that describes its functions, including their parameters and responsiblities. See the file README.TXT for a list of these programmer documentation files.

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Template Maker

Converts a FrontPage web to a FrontPage template. To use the tool, you need local or network file access to directories where FrontPage webs and templates are stored. Typically these are, respectively, C:\CONTENT and C:\VERMEER\WEBS.

First create a new directory, such as C:\TMKR. Then save the appropriate zip file below to the new directory. Unzip the file, run the SETUP.EXE program, and then delete the directory C:\TMKR.

Download tmkr32.zip (3.1 M) for Windows 95 and Windows NT.

The 16-bit version of Template Maker for Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups will be available shortly.

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Support for CGI-WIN Interface on 32-bit Windows Web Servers

CGI-WIN is a de-facto standard way of talking to CGI programs produced with Visual Basic. Since VB programs cannot read stdin and write stdout as on a UNIX system, the server needs to create temporary files for passing input to the VB program and collecting its output. The FrontPage 16-bit web server for Windows supports this interface natively for scripts that live in a top-level directory called CGI-WIN.

The program CGIWIN32.EXE (ZIP format, 24K) is a standard CGI script that provides this interface for Windows NT and Windows 95 web servers without native CGI-WIN support, such as the FrontPage 32-bit web server. CGIWIN32 will call your VB script and pass it the proper input in CGI-WIN 1.2 format, collect the results, and pass them back to the web server transparently. For more info on CGI-WIN, see the documentation provided with the FrontPage web server. The 32-bit CGI framework for Visual Basic 4.0 can be found at the O'Reilly & Associates web site.

The easiest way to use CGIWIN32 is to place it in the same directory as your VB program, typically in the cgi-bin subdir of your web. Alternatively, rather than placing separate copies of CGIWIN32 in each web you create, you can place a single copy in the cgi-bin subdir of your root web, and then refer to it using a server-relative path to the VB program as an argument to CGIWIN32.

Here are some examples of how to use CGIWIN32.EXE in your URLs:

• an absolute link to a VB script in the same dir as cgiwin32.exe:
  http://myserver/myweb/cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myvbprog.exe
• a relative link to the same script from a page in the web (note no initial slash):
  cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myvbprog.exe
• the same link as above, but with an extra path arg of 'foo':
  cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myvbprog.exe/foo
• the same link as above, but with a query of 'bar':
  cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myvbprog.exe/foo?bar
• an absolute link to the same script, but using cgiwin32.exe in the root web's cgi-bin dir:
  http://myserver/cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myweb/cgi-bin/myvbprog.exe
• a server-relative link to the same script from a page in the web (note initial slash):
  /cgi-bin/cgiwin32.exe/myweb/cgi-bin/myvbprog.exe

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