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A blast from the past!

bfxcgi is a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) executable that was commonly used on Unix-like systems, including Linux and macOS, to run CGI scripts. It was part of the bfox package, which was a collection of tools for building and running CGI scripts.

bfxcgi was used to execute CGI scripts, which are small programs that can be run on a web server to generate dynamic web content. CGI scripts are typically written in languages like Perl, Python, or C, and are executed by the web server when a request is made to a specific URL.

Here's an example of how bfxcgi might be used:

Create a CGI script, for example, hello.cgi, with the following contents:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><body>Hello, World!</body></html>";

Make the script executable by running the command chmod +x hello.cgi.
Place the script in a directory that is accessible by the web server, for example, /var/www/cgi-bin.
Configure the web server to run the CGI script by adding a line to the server's configuration file, for example, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, that looks like this:
```
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
```
Restart the web server to apply the changes.
Access the CGI script by visiting the URL http://example.com/cgi-bin/hello.cgi in a web browser.

When you visit the URL, the bfxcgi executable will be executed, and it will run the hello.cgi script, which will generate the HTML content and send it back to the web browser.

While bfxcgi is still available on some systems, it's worth noting that it's not as widely used as it once was, and many modern web servers and frameworks have their own built-in support for running CGI scripts.

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