I'm new to perl too, but I think I can help. As far as I can tell, perlscript is embeded right into an HTML file the same way you do VBScript or JavaScript, so your file would have the regular *.html extention. If on the other hand, you are using a full fledged perl program, you can run it from the command line, assuming you have an interpreter, which I'm sure mandrake has? I think the standard extention in this case is ".pl", but I think you can also use ".cgi". "perl myperlfile.pl" is the basic syntax from the command line. Or, you can put it in your web server's cgi-bin directory, and then call the program from a <A HREF="/cgi-bin/myperlfile.pl"> inside an HTML file. Anyway, I might be wrong on this because I'm not terribly familiar with PerScript, and I'm new to Perl in general, but just in case I'm the only one who answers you (not bloody likely)...at least you have something. Lol. :) -Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: bc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: using perl in mandrake i have mandrake8 and use kde, i normally use asp/vbScript and want to make the move to perl. I just got "learning perl" 2nd Ed. it does not seem to tell me what to do w/ my script i type, where to save it, what to save it as (extention), and do i just ftp it to my domain that is on a perl script supported web server at mindspring, and from there, just run that file that i ftp'ed there with my browser? i just need to get started and i shoud be okee dokee learning the code on my own... thanks for directing me if you can... :)
