NT Server -- first time user

Hi,

I've recently inherited the maintenence of a company's website hosted on an
NT server.  It is the first time I have had to deal with NT server and need
some reassurance and help regarding how it works for somebody used to
Apache.  It is also the first time I have used ASP (the previous
webdesigners for the company used ASP for form to email feedback), but  ASP
is not in itself the problem, I can figure that out.

What I would like to know is...

- Do I have to use an .asp extension to run ASP pages, or is there a method
similar to the Apache .htaccess with AddType and AddHandler so that the ASP
code can be parsed on plain old HTML pages? (Previously I have used this
method on Apache servers to parse SSI on an HTML page).

- There is a cgi-bin and a cgi-local folder on the server.  Which one do I
use for CGI scripts and more importantly will Perl CGI work on an NT server
in the same way it does on Apache?

- Can you Telnet to an NT server?  I have a feeling only UNIX based machines
will do that, yes?

- Is there an Apache distribution of ASP for my localhost server?  I would
like to be able to test my scripts offline.

- There are a number of files and directories with names similar to
_vti_foobar  inspection of one of the files reveals it to be related to
Frontpage (the previous designers used Frontpage to design the whole
website... and they didn't know how to configure it to give streamlined
code, thus we get code like this...

    <font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font
    size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img
    src="title.gif" width="400" height="30"></font>

... which is why I'm now the webdesigner).  What can be done with these
files... I do not use Frontpage, I do not need Frontpage features.  Can the
files be safely deleted, or should I leave them clogging up space?

I hope somebody out there can help!

Louise Dade
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