First, your Perl is not a complete version of Perl. You just have the compiler of Perl. You almostly missed some very important modules such as strict, warnings, CGI..etc.
And second, your Perl is out of dated..... for Win32 OS, Perl is up to 5.8.0 now. So go to http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Register.plex?id=ActivePerl to download the newest, complete version of Perl. If you use all default settings of Perl, your Perl is installed at C:\Perl. Also, some parameters (PATH) is stored to Windows too (After reboot). So to run your script, just start like : perl C:\somewhere\perlscripts\helloworld.pl or you can use the direct mode ( I name it ) : perl ( Press Enter ) print "HelloWorld\n"; ( Press F6 then Enter, or Ctrl-Z Enter) your codes will run. HTH ----- Original Message ----- From: "KENNETH JANUSZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PERL Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:27 AM Subject: I'm a Nebie to PERL Platform: DELL 8200 with XP Prof. SP1 and Oracle 9.2 with the test DB. I'm new to PERL and need some guidance on getting to run on my PC. The PERL files were installed when I implemented Oracle 9.2. I didn't add any other code. My PERL files are located at: C:\oracle\ora92\Apache\perl\5.00503\bin\MSWin32-x86\ a2p.exe perl5.00503.exe perl95.exe perl.dll perl.exe perlglob.exe The helloworld.pl file is located at: C:\IDSHome1\j2ee\home\default-web-app\examples\perl\ I copied the helloworld.pl file to the same directory as the perl.exe files. Then at the C:\ command line I entered: C:\oracle\ora92\Apache\perl\5.00503\bin\MSWin32-x86\perl helloworld.pl It ran and just listed the contents of the helloworld.pl file. PERL ran but the .pl program didn't. Any idea how to get this to work? TIA, Ken Janusz, CPIM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
