OBTAIN AND INSTALL Rcgi and Octave cgi 0). You need perl on your machine. First, obtain the files. 1). You need 4 files for Octave cgi. They are testOctave.html testmatlab.html gomatlab.cgi goOctave.cgi 2). How to get the 4 files needed to run Octave cgi? Well, if you already got here, then you should have no problem to download the two html files (use your browser's view -> source menu). The two cgi files can be obtained at http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/Octavecgi.txt 3). You need 5 files for Rcgi. They are testR3.html testR3nopic.html goR3.cgi goR3nopic.cgi logo.gif Again, you should be able to use your web browser's view -> source menu to download the two HTML files and use your right mouse button to get the logo.gif file (or get it from the CRAN cite). The two cgi files can be obtained at http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/Rcgis.txt Next, the installation 4). On a Linux box here, this is how we installed Rcgi: (I do not know how to install it on a windows box). Inside your public_html directory you should have two files: testR3.html testR3nopic.html and two sub-directories: cgi-bin tmp 5). The directory tmp is just a place to hold the temperary files that will be created automatically. (and deleted automatically later). Inside the subdirectory cgi-bin you should have three files: goR3.cgi goR3nopic.cgi logo.gif 6). One last thing you need to change: inside the two cgi files, you need to change the path to your home directory. (I have it set to mine here but your machine may have a different path) This is my path: /mnt/disknt1/statguest/statweb/public_html/tmp it needs modification depend on your local machine. (I think there are two places have this path). 7). One last last thing: set the file permisions to let others read and excute the code. Please let me know if you got this to work, and I shall put a link on my page here. The installation of Octave cgi is completely similar, you need only four files since I am too lazy to put in a logo file yet. I am placing the code Octave cgi under GPL 2.0. The code Rcgi is based on MJ Ray's code with some minor modification. See Ray's README file for copyright statement. He basically said the code is in the public domain. Mai Zhou