At 16:55 13/03/2001, you wrote:
>At 16:53 13/03/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >At 16:39 13/03/2001, you wrote:
> >>Dave Cross wrote:
> >> > Oops. I just did the Random Text one.
> >
> >>And, of course, there should be a comment at the top above
> >>#!/usr/local/bin/perl to the effect that "you should edit this to point to
> >>where Perl [version 5.00x or above] is installed on your machine".
> >
> >Can you put something like that above the shebang line? I thought that #!
> >had to be the first two chars in the file.
>
>Could we write some sort of internal installer process so the instruction
>to the user would be type 'perl rand_text2.pl configure' and the script
>then rewrites itself. Updating #! lines etc, possibly even asking
>configuration questions which get written to config files.
I'd like to do that, but bear in mind that the majority of our audience
only have ftp access to their web server. So an installation script would
be pointless for them.
Dave...
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