Re: installing Mail-tools module in windows 2000

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
> I am trying to install the MAIL::tools module in windows 2000. According to > the INSTALL > file the steps to installation are: > >perl Makefile.PL >make >make test >make install > > I was able to run the first command, but when I type 'make' in the dos > prompt > i get thi

Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
> Under UNIX (the sensible option) ;) You simply mark the file executable > and thats it. On UNIX you also need the shebang... #!/usr/bin/perl or wherever perl is located... This actually goes for all shell scripts... -- Greetz Hendrik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

installing Mail-tools module in windows 2000

2001-05-26 Thread Rex Posadas
Hi, I am trying to install the MAIL::tools module in windows 2000. According to the INSTALL file the steps to installation are: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install I was able to run the first command, but when I type 'make' in the dos prompt i get this error: 'make' is

Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Redvers Davies
> There's one thing i've always wanted to understand...Sometimes the perl > program ends with .pl and sometimes .cgimaybe i'm a very bad programmer Perl doesn't care what the extension is. A lot of perl programmers use .pl and .cgi because they want to. This also has the advantage that webm

Re: CR LF with UNIX and Windows (DOSish?)

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
AFAIK Perl will change \n to \n\r if used on Windows... Dynamically changing $/ and $\ isnt recommended, unless you know what you're doing... in which case you should be localizing em. > Have you tried setting the $/ (input record seperator) and $\ (output > seporator) variable for all of your s

Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 26, Manoj Jacob said: >I've done some programming in perl mainly for web oriented stuff >There's one thing i've always wanted to understand...Sometimes the perl >program ends with .pl and sometimes .cgimaybe i'm a very bad programmer >and i'm really dumb that i've not understood th

Re: CR LF with UNIX and Windows (DOSish?)

2001-05-26 Thread David Monarres
Have you tried setting the $/ (input record seperator) and $\ (output seporator) variable for all of your scripts to the same thing accross platforms. I don't know if the perl script also creats the data but if it does you can use the "\oXXX" control code to set this accross platforms. David Monar

Re: error on system command

2001-05-26 Thread Dan Brown
Peter Lemus wrote: > > Hi, I'm getting a syntax error on the following > command > > $PIDS=`ps -ef | grep $user | grep -v grep | cut -b > 10-14` > > Please help. I need to get the process id of $user > and assign it to PIDS, then kill it. This little script worked on my system to prind out th

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
> ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid > question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) > > well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? 1) read perl code 2)

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Lucy
> ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid > question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) > > well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? Hiya, there are lot

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Collin Rogowski
> well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? If you know how to program in any other language see 1, otherwise see 2. 1. Just think up a program you would like to have and start writing it in Perl. I w

newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Foxpro
ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? please, any kind of input is w