Getting CGI Output

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April 24, 2000

Getting CGI Output

Question:
Using C or C++ for CGI programs, is there a way to make a CGI program that calls another CGI program, and then takes the output of that called CGI program, and displays (to the client only) some selected text from the output of the called CGI program? For example, A CGI program that can use the Yahoo CGI program to display to the user only the first search result of a Yahoo search.<

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