OOP and Vars

2003-10-30 Thread Jeremy A
hi, i have a question about vars. I have created many packages, each which are in pm files. the main file does a bunch of requires. now, what i want to do is to put all the packages into one file, but i am having trouble with global variables. is this a use or require issue? suppose i have

Re: Looking for command Line interface

2003-10-30 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Stacy Doss wrote: Hi, all. I'm looking for a module that will allow me to do command line processing. Something like tcsh, bash, perl -d, ftp or tclsh. Requirements: Distinct prompt Basic choice selection from list Validate commands based on configuration Perl source for

command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread Beckett Richard-qswi266
Guys, I've installed perl at home on my W98 system. There are many reasons why I want to stick with w98, so changing OS is not an option. The problem is, that I use the command prompt a lot when writing/debugging scripts, but the w98 prompt is really crap. It won't let you specify the size of

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Beckett Richard-qswi266 wrote: Guys, I've installed perl at home on my W98 system. There are many reasons why I want to stick with w98, so changing OS is not an option. The problem is, that I use the command prompt a lot when writing/debugging scripts, but the w98 prompt is really

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread Alexander Apprich
Hi Richard, if you are familiar with Linux/Unix there are ports avalible from different shells like bash and zsh. If you'd like to have a complete environment of Linux/Unix stuff I can recommend using cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com Regards Alex Beckett Richard-qswi266 wrote: Guys, I've

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread Huub Peters
Hi, Another user on this mailinglist ($Bill Luebkert) has the Windows 98 compatible cmd.exe on his webpage: http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ Last item in the first table: cmd.exe for Windows 9x (from Microsoft site originally -

How do I convert date/time stamp from Outlook COM objects?

2003-10-30 Thread Tony White
I'm trying to access and delete mail items from a particular Public Folder if they are over 2 weeks old. I need to be able to work with dates that I retrieve from mail messages. I'm using Win32::OLE and the Outlook COM object in order to retrieve this information, but have no clue as to how to

Re: OOP and Vars

2003-10-30 Thread C. Church
how do i go about getting a global variable to show, without putting , defining it locally in the sub. i dont want to be defining things in subs as i have alot of global and private variables and alot of subs per package. This should help to elucidate the problem you're having, run this and

RE: How do I convert date/time stamp from Outlook COM objects?

2003-10-30 Thread Peter Guzis
This code will convert the date to an integer suitable for use with Perl. I believe I originally grabbed it from http://public.activestate.com/authors/tobyeverett/usefulprogs/lastlogin/lastlogin.html. sub datestr2localtime { my($datestr) = @_; my $temp = Win32::OLE::Variant-new(VT_BSTR,

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread Michael D. Smith
Try the one on my Tripod site. I don't get it. It looks exactly like the one that came with win98 except it's 3 times bigger. Almost exactly anyway, the right click menu is not as extensive but the functions can still be accessed from the buttons at the top. So, why is it better (bigger) than

RE: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread Grant Babb
Title: RE: command prompt problems. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bb4win/ Viva la SourceForge, dawg. HTH, grant stevens L-EET Web Services http://www.l-eet.com/ -Original Message- From: Michael D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:20 PM To:

Case sensitivity oddness unicode

2003-10-30 Thread William Limratana
I have the following code: --- sub uniTEST { my($value,$iter) = @_; ResW(+before $value BRBR); return $value; } $testval = UniTEST($value,$iter); ResW(+after $testvalBRBR); --- Note that the

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Alexander Apprich wrote: Hi Richard, if you are familiar with Linux/Unix there are ports avalible from different shells like bash and zsh. If you'd like to have a complete environment of Linux/Unix stuff I can recommend using cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com I also have a Win32 native

Re: command prompt problems.

2003-10-30 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Michael D. Smith wrote: Try the one on my Tripod site. I don't get it. It looks exactly like the one that came with win98 except it's 3 times bigger. Almost exactly anyway, the right click menu is not as extensive but the functions can still be accessed from the buttons at the top. I

How to find the length of a pdf file on the internet

2003-10-30 Thread RWAPSoftware
I have written a small spider which checks a database of webpage addresses for validity. It returns the length of a web-page in bytes (supposedly), but I cannot get it to return the correct length of a PDF file web address Code is basically: local ($PageToFetch, $httpname); [EMAIL

RE: How to find the length of a pdf file on the internet

2003-10-30 Thread Messenger, Mark
Have you tried doing aHEADrequest? $ua-head($url, Header = Value,...); IIRC, this should return a CONTENT_LENGTH value -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:38 PMTo: [EMAIL