Plexus
Plexus Version 2.2.1 is available in a compressed tar
file (~80K), or as individual source files.
This server is graciously based on the
perl server
developed at cs.indiana.edu by
Marc VanHeyningen.
Many changes were made by
Tony Sanders and
all errors can be attributed to him.
Feature Overview
- Date and Time Gateway
- Displays the date and time using 61 different timezone translations.
- Finger Gateway
- Finger people and print out relevant faces.
- Directory Browser
- Sorted, last modification stamp, file size, and directory indictor.
Allows HTML headers and footers. User can specify filters using
search keyword.
- Fortune
- Print out a fortune from the fortune database.
- Calendar
- Prints out calendars by month and year, will also do whole years.
- Image Decoding Libaray
- Find objects in images using bitmasks.
- Directory Search
- Search directory trees using perl regular expressions.
- Bookmark
- Iconic UP, FORW, and BACK using image decoding library and menus
embedded in the URL.
Additional Contributed Features
- ArchiePlex
- Allows searches of the archie database.
Administration
- Server setup
- The basics
- Server Internals
- Which routines do what
- Server Support Routines
- Usage of the support routines
- File Layout
- Where files go in the server directory
Details about the World Wide Web project are
available online.
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Tony Sanders