At 11:07 PM 08.08.2001 -0400, Rex Arul wrote:
>Please visit http://www.activestate.com . They have PerlApp and PerlCOM
>tools as part of the Perl Development Kit.
>
>With PerlApp you can generate free running EXEs and with PerlCOM you can
>create DLLs which can be invoked by any VB/VBScript/JScript code.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Carmody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:21 PM
>Subject: A little off topic.
>
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> > Having crafted my masterpiece in perl, I now need to get it to run from
> > within a VB script.
> >
> > (VB takes office file, converts to .csv, which perl scripts then parses,
> > but poor secretary has to have excel doco to work on....)
> > So this is only in the interest of allowing perl to actually be used at my
> > work in a real environment (as opposed to only me using when I need it)
> > and being seen as a REAL tool, even though it's free/open source/not
>microsoft
> >
Just make sure you guys never upgrade to the .NET platform. M$ license for
that junk dissallows the use of any ''viral'' software including all open
source (Perl specifically mentioned in the license) with there .NET
platform. *sigh*...I really dislike M$.
Sorry for the out of band message folks.
- Jim
> > So how do i get visual basic to call external executable files ?
> > Such as perlscript.bat containing "perl myscript.pl"
> >
> > Any help doubly appreciated...
> >
> > Michael Carmody
> > MDU, Public Health Lab
> > Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
> > The University of Melbourne, Parkville
> >
> >
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