Re: problems with perl commands from perforce

2001-09-13 Thread Charles Aulds
I'm not sure what Perforce is, but I suspect it runs as an NT Service ... our company has a number of scripts that run under the control of an NT Service ... we have never been able to use the 'system' command, backticks, or qx to spawn processes and retrieve their results ... except in version

RE: problems with perl commands from perforce

2001-09-13 Thread Peter Vogel
Do you intend for $listfiles to be a perl variable that gets expanded in your command or do you want it to be a reference to a shell variable? If the latter, you need to enter your command in single quote or escape the $. chdir and system do work from perl on Windows just like they work from u

problems with perl commands from perforce

2001-09-13 Thread k wong
I've written a perl script that involves a few functions from the command line: - <...a bunch of code...> chdir "c:\\Lint"; $mycmd = "lin -os(perloutput.tmp) $listfiles"; system $mycmd; - This perl script runs fine when called directly from t

Re: HTML::Parser & items

2001-09-13 Thread Jeremy Wadsack
M.W. Koskamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Would I be better off doing this without HTML::Parser? I've done it >> previously, with use of Regexs: > I think you are indeed better of using HTML::Parser. > In general i dont like to build existing functionality. > Moreover the code below is kinda unread

RE: Questions on an install...

2001-09-13 Thread Paul Maine Jr.
For starters you can type perl -v  from the dos prompt. -Original Message-From: Jason Bitman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:25 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: Questions on an install... I am running Windows 2000, and I

Re: Questions on an install...

2001-09-13 Thread Sean Wilson
If you aren't getting the following information at the command line, things aren't installed correctly.  Since you are on Windows 2000 the PATH statement should have been updated correctly immediately, if you get an error saying "'perl' is not a recognized..." then you may need to reboot first. A

Questions on an install...

2001-09-13 Thread Jason Bitman
I am running Windows 2000, and I am trying to install ActiveState Perl, but I have no idea if it is installed right.  And even if it does install right, how can I test it???  This is the first time I have tried this, and I do not know what to look for...   Thank you,  

PerlApp and child pid

2001-09-13 Thread Vassiliy Truskov
Hello everybody, I am having a problem with a free-standing executable compiled using PerlApp 3.00. When I open a pipe to it, it returns me PID of my child process. It works fine as a Perl script, but problems occur when I compile it to a free-standing executable. Now it returns a '1' if the

Question about installing and using Tk!

2001-09-13 Thread Hoyt cheng
Hello,  I just installed 'ActivePerl-5.6.1.629-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.msi' and used the PPM to also install Tk. Howvere, when I typed 'perl -e "use Tk"', I got the follow message:  Tk object version 800.022 does not match $Tk::XS_VERSION 800.023 at C:/Perl/lib/Dynaloader.pm line 225.   Can a