RE: Perl 6?

2002-04-05 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All I have been reading this Perl 6 thread and it has brought me a laugh or two as I thought about my career. I have been a programmer for more then 40 years. The first computer I used you programmed by wiring boards with jumper wires. This was upgraded to one that was programmed one b

DBI and Oracle 8I

2001-07-05 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but here goes. Please direct me to other lists if appropriate. I would like to use Perl to access are Oracle 8I version 817 database on Solaris 2.6. 1) Do the current DBI packages support this? 2) If so,

RE: Windows2000

2001-07-05 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
I click on "reply to all" and delete the individuals address, leaving only the address to the list. That way the individual doesn't get two e-mails. Bill Conrad -Original Message- From: RL Autry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:45 PM To: Aaron Craig; [EMAIL PROT

RE: ActivePerl PPM Question

2001-07-03 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi Adrian I had a corrupt version of ppm. I re-installed and it works. Thanks Bill Conrad -Original Message- From: Ichim, Adrian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:12 AM To: Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) Subject: RE: ActivePerl PPM Question You may have

RE: ActivePerl PPM Question

2001-07-03 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
HI Tim Yes, I downloaded the Tk.zip file from ActiveState not CPAN and got this error. Thanks Bill Conrad -Original Message- From: Tim Musson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ActivePerl PPM Question He

ActivePerl PPM Question

2001-07-03 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All Has anyone used ActivePerl's Perl Package Manager to install CPAN packages? I down loaded the Tk package and I am trying to install it locally with the following command ppm install Tk.ppd and I get the following error: Failed to load PPM_DAT file Can someone te

RE: Compile Errors Question

2001-06-20 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Thanks Gary That worked. -Original Message- From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:14 AM To: Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compile Errors Question Hi Bill, the reason you're still getting errors o

RE: Compile Errors Question

2001-06-20 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
To: Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compile Errors Question Hi Bill, perl does send warnings and errors to STDERR. The redirection you speak of is actually done by the shell (the program providing the command prompt) and not the application itself. Therefore if you

Compile Errors Question

2001-06-20 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All Does PERL write compile errors and warnings to STDERR and if so is there any easy way to have them written to a file rather then to the console? Some language have a command line switch which allows you to redirect the error messages to a log file, but I did not see one

STDERR Question

2001-06-19 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All Does PERL write compile errors and warnings to STDERR and if so is there any easy way to have them written to a file rather then to the console? Thanks Bill Conrad

RE: Reading versus Referencing Books

2001-06-15 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All >I can only say from my experiance it is easier for me to take a new luanguage >step by step, rather then look at some one elses code as a hole and try to >understand everything all at once. > >To put it a differnt way I like to understand Scalar Data, Arrays, References, >Conditio

RE: Reading versus Referencing Books

2001-06-15 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
HI All Does anybody have the Perl Cookbook and what do you think of it? Thanks Bill Conrad

Packages/modules Question

2001-06-15 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All Is there a way to list all of the packages/modules installed on a system from the command line? Thanks Bill Conrad

RE: GUI Packages

2001-06-08 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi Peter and Brett I work in both a UNIX and NT environment sometimes using telnet. Which package would be best? Thanks Bill Conrad -Original Message- From: Markus Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 8:35 AM To: Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) Cc: [EMAIL

GUI Packages

2001-06-08 Thread Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech)
Hi All Is there a GUI module/package for use within PERL Scripts? Thanks Bill Conrad Senior Complex Information Analyst Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. One Progress Drive Horsham, PA 19044-8014 Phone: (215) 682-5324 Fax:(215) 682-5378 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thomast