Re: background process on windows 2000

2001-11-30 Thread David Edrich
I had a similar situation, didn't really like Win32::Process, fork didn't work, I don't think it does outside of Unix, either one seems complicated to me. Instead I just wrote the data to a queue in a file and had another 'background' process poll the file every 10 seconds to see if t

how to write/read cookies with CGI.pm

2001-11-10 Thread David Edrich
Can someone tell me how to write a cookie if you are using CGI?? I mean I can process the form inputs and access them by using param('parameter'). And no matter how much I look at http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/ it never ever really tells me the secret to reading cookies! I mean pri

Re: Good IDE's, either freeware or commercial, for debugging?

2001-11-09 Thread David Edrich
I went to the OptiPerl and the UltraEdit web sites. Both seem like good products, I can't tell which is a better editor. Any opinions? And additionally, For $30 more you DO get a Debugger with OptiPerl. Is it great to have that? - Original Message - From: Peter Guzis To: perl-win32-user

very strange problem reading in file from a URL

2001-11-09 Thread David Edrich
Now I have another problem my code to upload a file from a URL is acting strange. I'm just hoping that someone had this problem themselves before. I do: $url=$_; if ($_ !~ /(^http:\/\/)/i) { $url="http://".$_;} use LWP::Simple; chomp($url); getstore($url,$dest); Very simple really notice if

Re: CGI.pm - how to uploading files?

2001-11-09 Thread David Edrich
was very simple. - Original Message - From: David Edrich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:52 PM Subject: CGI.pm - how to uploading files? I'm hoping someone can help me 'connect the dots' on how to use CGI.pm to upload a file.

Re: Can't install DBD:MySQL

2001-10-29 Thread David Edrich
Thanks. That did it. I can stop panicing... - Original Message - From: Mike Kangas To: David Edrich Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Can't install DBD:MySQL here is what i did ppm install DBI ppm install DBD-MySQL hope it helps On Monday 29 October 2001 07:

Can't install DBD:MySQL

2001-10-29 Thread David Edrich
I just installed the lastest version of Perl and nothing works. I'm now installing, using PPM, DBI and DBD::MySQL. DBI got installed but DBD::MySQL is not! My PPD session is as below: It looks pretty hopless to me. Does the latest PERL not support mySQL anymore? Any ideas what I can do? First t

Re: error using PPM only for gettting apache::session

2001-10-29 Thread David Edrich
I can create my own thing for the simple functionality I require)   - Thanks - Original Message - From: Neil Kandalgaonkar To: Arms, Mike Cc: 'David Edrich' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: error usi