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It’ll take you approx. 15 minutes. Sorry, this paper is just hacked together very quickly.

The server root

• If you’re using CVS with your own private repository:

   $ cd /web $ mkdir yourprivateserver $ cd yourprivateserver $ cvs checkout theserver 

  
  
  

  Or if you want a copy of the latest ACS release (in this case 3.1):

  
  
  

   $ cd /web/ $ cvs -d ls.arsdigita.com:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout -d yourserver -r acs-3-1 acs 

  
  
  

  Otherwise just

  
  
  

   $ cp -r /web/theserver /web/yourprivateserver 

  
  
  
• $ cd...

The big picure

We want to do something like <a href=”http://www.aolserver.com/doc/3.0/tcldev/tapi-c68.htm#107131” >ns_httpopen or <a href=”http://www.aolserver.com/doc/3.0/tcldev/tapi-c67.htm#68227” >ns_httpget from the standard <a href=”http://www.aolserver.com”>AOLserver API. We don’t want to implement SSL in Tcl, so we are thankful that it’s already been implemented in C and Perl.

The way I did it and explain here is stupid...

The Outdated Metaphor

The notion of a score, with a single timeline and a single depth axis, the stage and the cast, all worked well in the beginning. Because the (multi) medium of computers was new, people needed a familiar metaphor they could relate to. And the level of user interaction wasn’t too high, so it made sense to think of it as a movie with perhaps a little interaction on top.

Not so anymore. As the demands for user interaction increases, the limitations of the metaphor...