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From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Harry Wykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: os-windows/3104: Making PERL work with Apache on Win32 systems
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:36:39 -0700 (PDT)

 On 30 Sep 1998, Harry Wykes wrote:
 
 >    3.If you have installed Apache into the default directory, it will reside 
 > in the directory
 >      \Program Files\Apache Group\Apache on whichever drive you selected. 
 > This causes a problem for PERL, because
 >      the path to the script directory \Program Files\Apache 
 > Group\Apache\cgi-bin contains not just one, but 2 spaces.
 >      When Apache invokes your script, the path to the script directory is 
 > prepended to the script name. If your script name
 >      is fred.pl, then this is what will be passed to the command processor 
 > by Apache:- 
 > 
 >        \usr\bin\perl \Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin\fred.pl 
 > 
 >      Look carefully, instead of the name of your script being passed as the 
 > first argument to PERL, three arguments are
 >      passed:- 
 > 
 >      \Program 
 >      Files\Apache 
 >      Group\Apache\cgi-bin\fred.pl  
 > 
 >      Not exactly what is intended, or required. 
 
 Erm... are you sure about that?  Did you try this in 1.3.2?
 

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