--- texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/05 13:36:57	1.3
+++ texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/06 21:34:05	1.4
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 \subsubsection{rec.cgi (register text)}
 \label{sec:rec.cgi}
 
+\paragraph
+On the ECHO server, new texts are registered by means of reg.cgi (
+archimedes/web/cgi-bin/toc/admin/reg.cgi ). reg.cgi retrieves a
+metadata file from the entered uri (currently only local paths are
+supported ) and constructs from this file a toc.cgi object file (see
+below) , which it writes to toc.cgi's data section. [corpus???]
+
+\paragraph
+reg.cgi takes two parameters, path and show.  Path should give the
+local path to the metadata file for the text that is being
+registered. If ``show'' is set to 1, reg.cgi will return for
+inspection the toc.cgi object file that it has built out of the
+submitted metadata file. 
+
 
 \subsubsection{toc.cgi (display text)}
 \label{sec:toc.cgi}