Thanks for the help, everyone. Leif Gregory's advice was true that the notepad was a source of problems; even though I enclosed the filename in quotes and made sure the extension was l.pl, I was getting an 'internal error'. Switching to PSPad eliminated that source of error. Also, Peter's suggestion to lose the -wT switches on line #1 worked to finally give a working script! I read in a book that these switches helped debug but not in this case. I wish I knew what was the location of the perl interpreter I am using. This is a Windows computer so there's no /usr/bin/ directory. The \n and \t control characters do not work, but I sent a copy of the script to my friend who has a UNIX computer and they do work on her computer. Here's my script right now:
#!/usr/bin/perl/perl.exe print "<P> -wT doesn't work <P> neither does backslash n for newline or backslash t for tab!"; print "<P>why doesn't newline or tab work?\tI wonder why.\n It's a huge mystery"; print "<p>Hello,World!\n Hello,World!<br>Hello,World!"; It doesn't even care if the first line is there or not, it's probably finding an interpreter to use in the windows path. It would be great if I knew what those codes were in the log file when the scripts crash. That information is not available to newbies, right? Thanks to everyone for the advice. Cherie ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
