CSCGI links web pages to external programs on a local system without an Internet connection or remote web server:
CSCGI connects HTML pages and forms to Javascript and Java programs,
and also to external programs via a Netscape plugin:
Initial use of CSCGI was a PDS CD-ROM image browser, using C programs
to search and extract data, and Java applets to display results:
The end result was image and text info on Voyager (e.g.) missions:
A new CSCGI interface standardized use on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems:
A new version of the PDS browser created JPEG images directly, instead of
using Java applets for display:
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