Re: Zipping/unzipping files on windows

2006-07-18 Thread David Stanaway
The Archive::Zip is standard with an activeperl install. You would be foolish not to use it. Its portable and works well. If you wanted to use OLE and the XP zip stuff, knock yourself out. Sham Prasad wrote: > Thanks all i was able to do it using the module in just few lines. > > Sham > > On 7

Re: running perl on linux..

2006-06-30 Thread David Stanaway
On Unix, scripts uses a shbang, the first 2 characters of the file must be ASCII #! The path after that is executed. Commonly, you will have: #! /usr/bin/env perl -w But if you know that perl will be in /usr/bin/perl then #! /usr/bin/perl -w will work too. Also, it is important that at least

Re: Install problem on W2K3 + IIS

2006-06-20 Thread David Stanaway
release. Doesn't do much to instill confidence in perl for the uninitiated at work. $Bill Luebkert wrote: > David Stanaway wrote: > >> Hello, >> I just installed ActivePerl (Latest 5.8 MSI installer from website) >> (Without ISAPI, PerlScript and PerlEx) on Windows 20

Install problem on W2K3 + IIS

2006-06-18 Thread David Stanaway
Hello, I just installed ActivePerl (Latest 5.8 MSI installer from website) (Without ISAPI, PerlScript and PerlEx) on Windows 2003 Server with IIS, and it caused IIS to fail. I don't have access to the system now, but restarting IIS did not resolve the issue. All requests were yielding 500 - data in