Re: web ferret

[Glenn Carver <Glenn.Carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:45 pm +0100 5/5/99, Joe Sirott wrote:

>WebFerret provides full access to Ferret from a Web browser. A user can
>log in to WebFerret and have access, from anywhere on the Internet, to
>the same Ferret datasets,scripts, and commands that are available while
>on his "home" computer. Any Ferret command (with a few, mostly security
>related, exceptions) can be run. However, a user has to know how to use
>Ferret before WebFerret will be of any use to him.

Fantastic!  You guys deserve a medal.

These web based facilities (both LiveServer and WebFerret) will be ideal
for some of the things we've wanted to do for some time. All I can say is
keep up the good work.

One quick question: will external functions work within Web Ferret? It'll
be paradise if they do!


        Glenn



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