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
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