Jive operates both as a command line (console) program and as a web server cgi-bin program. Jive reads input data in HTML Form Input format from the standard input device - stdin. It produces output on the standard output device - stdout. For web server operation, this output is normally HTML text.
Jive processes an ASCII file containing embedded Jive commands. The name of this file is normally specified on the Jive command line but can be overridden by HTML Form Input.
After HTML Form Input from stdin has been processed, the Jive command line is also processed as Form Input. Any command line arguments containing an equal sign (=) are assumed to be in Form Input format.
If the first command line argument does not contain an equal sign (=), it is used as the file name for Jive input and execution of embedded code. The file name can be overridden with 'page=' in the Form Input or the command line.
The processing of the Jive input file is described in HTML Processing.