OT run ticker source code

[Howard Wolowitz]

I have received a number of requests for the runticker source so I have made 
it available on the aljex web site.  All the parts are in the directory at:

http://nj.aljex.com/runticker.source

Just right click on each part and save the source.

First a word about our environment.  At Aljex I created sym link of /cgi-bin 
that points to the server' real cgi-bin (cause I'm lazy).  You will may have 
to fix the code to point to your server's cgi-bin directory.

There are 3 parts to runticker:

"runticker.bat" is a UNIX shell script file that must be in your cgi-bin 
directory and marked as executable.  It runs the "runptop" script so you 
have to edit it to point to where ever you place "runptop".

"runptop" is the script that creates the data in /tmp.  It must be 
executable.  On our system it is in kept /u/magprogs.

"runticker.tar" is a tar of the directory /htdocs/runticker that contains 
the PERL programs.  The programs should be placed in your 
.../htdocs/runticker directory.

(You may have to remove any extra ^M characters that the browser added when 
you saved the two scripts.)

Once everything is in the proper place, with the proper permissions you 
start it by running:

http://YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME/runticker/tick.pl

(You will have to allow popups and the first window to close if you are 
using Internet Explorer and you can change the width of the window to suit 
your needs.)

Once you understand how it all works you can modify it to display any type 
of information you want.  At Aljex the original version was created to 
display all shipments waiting to be dispatched.  The qual= variable (not 
used in runticker) was for passing the user's qualifier name to filepro.

Enjoy,

Howie
PS: I made some last minute changes to clean up the code and scripts and 
hope I have not introduced any bugs.