Johnson
Cc: Michael D. Smith; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: Re: PERL on a CD
The only downside to running (Active)Perl from a CD, is that ppm does
not seem to work. Something about paths being wrong and stuff.
Appreciate any solutions to this matter.
Timothy Johnson wrote
I think you want the Autorun.inf file, not ini.
Check out the reference here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellc
c/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/au
torun/autoplay_cmds.asp
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Also note that you should be able to use a path, like so:
open=perl\bin\perl.exe myscript.pl
(with the same caveat Jan gave us yesterday that you have to make sure
you're appropriately licensed if you plan to distribute outside of your
organization)
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From: Timothy
The only disadvantage to running Perl from a CD is that the file
associations would not be there, so you would have to prepend perl.exe
to your command-line to launch your script.
perl myscript.pl
Other than that, you can just copy your perl directory to a CD and run
it from any machine with a
It's just expanding $ENV{TEMP} to get that directory, so you should
still be able to write the temporary files to the cache. There should
be no registry entries or DLL registries required, but I don't have a
lot of experience with PAR.
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ACLs don't automatically update when their parent is updated unless
certain APIs are used (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q266461; and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secauth
z/security/setsecurityinfo.asp).
If you want to propagate
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood. I've been really busy lately, but I
might have a chance to look closer tonight. Maybe a second set of eyes
will turn something up.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:01 PM
To: Timothy Johnson
Can you do an ftp ftp.servername.com
from the same computer at the command-line?
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Subject: Net:FTP not connecting to a particular
Forgot to respond to the list.
From: Timothy Johnson
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:02 PM
To: 'Ted Yu'
Subject: RE: FTP not connecting to a particular site.
This sounds like a name resolution issue then. Have you
tried doing an NSLOOKUP
.
Thanks, that seems like the
issue. I'm kind of new to name resolution issues. Is there some
sort of magic file located on the computer where I can edit to make
everything work back to normal?
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To: Timothy Johnson
Cc: Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: Re: Block Alt+TAB?
snip
It would have to be a custom screensaver. It needs to do such things as:
* Show a custom message
* Show a countdown timer (how much time they have to unlock the screen
before they are automatically
D'oh! Correct.
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Subject: RE: Block Alt+TAB?
FYI CTRL+SHIFT+ESC will launch the task manager
, though.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Block Alt+TAB?
Timothy Johnson wrote:
Hmm. Can they do Ctrl+Alt+ESC, or Win+D?
They can't
Are you sure that's what you want to do? There are other ways to get
around what you're trying to do. What's to stop them from killing it in
Task Manager, for example?
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find some way around it.
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Timothy Johnson wrote:
Are you sure that's what you want to do
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Subject: RE: Spawining interactive
Maybe try /r/f instead of /r/n?
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I'm trying to print multiple
Out of curiosity, why are you printing directly to the printer?
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snip
That was the first one I tried :-).
You might want to try using WMI and Win32_Process to spawn the process.
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Have you tried recording a macro to see if you can get a VBA function
for invoking it? If you can swing that, then you would have a good
starting point.
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Subject: Re: Carriage Return charachter in dos prompt
What I was unable to do is insert carriage
It looks like something like this might work:
$xl-Addins(Analysis ToolPak)-{Installed} = 'True';
I'm pretty busy today so the syntax might be a little off, but that's
basically it. Klaatu Barada Nicto, or something.
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006
I dont think
you can do that unless you find some way to pass it as an escape sequence or
something string. One of the idiosyncrasies of the MS console is that if
it hits a newline character it will close your double-quotes for you and just
consider everything from the double-quote to the
: Ken
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eyal edri; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: RE: Carriage Return
charachter in dos prompt
Another
option might be to write it out to a batch file within the script as you would
Have you tested this?
In my tests the batch file chokes in exactly the same way as typing it in at
the command prompt, passing the newline to cmd and starting a new command.
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eyal
I've never used Net::FTP from a static address, so I doubt that's the source of
the problem.
Is the client on a different subnet? Are there any firewall rules that might
apply?
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Sample code would be appreciated. I don't use it myself, but I can try
it out and see what sticks.
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I think that's what most of us were getting at. In order for your or
conditions to be tripped you would have to get something back that did not
evaluate to false. In the case of a function that is returning positive
numbers for error codes, there is about a 99% chance that it is returning 0
the results you wanted.
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Subject: Resolved
Title: Question about Win32-OLE
Are you sure that the
connect method is returning a non-zero value on success? What happens if you
take out the die clause?
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Subject: Re: A system modal dialog box?
snip
The end-users have a time limit to use the system.
For that you can use the \Q and\E operators
/\Q^Root:\s+(.*)$\E/;
Check out 'perldoc perlre'
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Subject: mistaken newline
snip
Root:
I don't know if that's possible. You can create a dialog box that won't
go away until you click on it and is always in the foreground, but I
don't know if it will be possible to not allow any other interaction
until the dialog box is dealt with.
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I think you would need
to have an ssh server running on your Windows box first, but I havent
tried it.
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Try using the UserCheckPassword function of Win32::AdminMisc.
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Are you getting the
ProcessId property returned at the end? Have you checked the contents of
$varPID?
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To: Timothy Johnson
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Subject: Re: Remote WMI +
Win32_Process
Aye...
$varPID is set properly... but I'm trying to reason out a way to detect when
the remote process exists I have a feeling I'm going to need to
periodically query the process
You should submit this
to the PDK list. Ive tried changing the authentication level, etc. but
as far as I can tell your code is correct.
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At 08:23 AM 5/11/2006 -0400, D D Allen wrote:
I've
Check this key's default value:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\acrobat\shell\open\command
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I'm developing a nice
Quick and dirty: Make two hashes of arrays, one indexed by IP address,
and one by computername.
#
#NOTE: Not tested
use strict;
use warnings;
my %byName;
my %byIP;
open(INFILE,,myfile.txt) or die(Couldn't open 'myfile.txt' for
reading!\n);
while(INFILE){
chomp $_;
Do you know how to get the count of an array?
Using my example, since you know that you can cycle through the keys of
%findName and %findIP, and you know that you can access each array by
dereferencing it like so: @{$findName{$name}}, you should be able to
find the count of @{$findName{$name}}.
How about this:
print $char x $number_of_chars . \n for 1..$number_of_lines;
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Do you know how to get the count of an array?
Using my
Title: Win32::OLE::Variant, perl crashing.
Not sure off the top
of my head. Is there any way you could post some example code?
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snip: Bill's email
my ($b, $c) = ($1, $2) if $a =~ /^(\D+)(\d+)/;
Don't do that! $a
Nice. Here's the code in Perl (untested, but it should be the same).
use Win32::OLE;
my $xl = (Win32::OLE-GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') ||
Win32::OLE-new('Excel.Application'));
$xl-Application-Goto({Reference =
Why did you add the o? I believe you should only need that if you are
storing the regex in a scalar for reuse. Otherwise I think the regex
will still be compiled once for each iteration.
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Subject: Re: Easy One
I have a string, $a for arguments sake, that contains
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snip: snippiness
The original problem stated that the string
will have different
How about something like this?
#Check the length
unless(length($myScalar) != 8){
die(Bad Scalar! Bad!\n);
}
#Get the parts
if($myScalar =~ /^([^0-9]*)(\d+.*)$/ ){
print $1 $2\n;
}
NOTE: NEVER name your variable $a. $a
Title: Returning to a Worksheet where a hyperlink was used - in Excel with
Win32::OLE
I cant test
this, but have you tried Alt + ?
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On 5/1/06, Ng, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Real simple,
I have a
Okay, this may be a stupid question, but has the W2k machine EVER
beeped, and are you sure it has no sound drivers installed? It could
have some kind of sound driver installed and be replacing the PC beep
with sound files and you wouldn't know because you have no output
device.
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I dont think
this is enough information.
What
is the value of $wordfile?
Im
assuming youre trying to launch an instance of Microsoft Word. Is
it installed on both systems?
What
is your permission level on the systems?
What
is the value of $^E?
You could try sending
a Win32::OLE-QuitMessageLoop() and seeing if that works to break it out of
the call.
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Well, there are a couple of issues here. First off, I don't think this
would even compile, because you used /s instead of \s. Secondly, your
regex is looking for:
.* zero or more of any character
(unnecessary, since you didn't anchor the start
If you're referring to the same console that you ran your script from
then you can get it all just by redirecting STDOUT and STDERR. It will
go back after your script finishes running.
open(STDERR,,error.log) or die(Couldn't open 'error.log' for
append!\n);
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From:
Check Tools--Options--Calculation Tab and try changing the Calculation
radio button to Manual. That might get rid of the message. You just
have to keep in mind that you need to manually recalculate your values
if you want to see the current data.
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How about this?
###
use strict;
use warnings;
my @a = (1,2,3,4,5);
foreach(@a){
unless($_ == 3){
#do something...
}
}
###
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not worth it.
This might be a good one to run by the guys at the beginners@perl.org
mailing list. There are some guys over there that are pretty sharp when
it comes to picking the right algorithm for a particular task.
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Subject: RE: Dave Roth's web site
While we're on the topic of modules...
I've managed to accumulate modules from many different places, and they're
This sounds like the perfect time for a split()
my($var1,$var2) = split /#/,$line;
perldoc -f split
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If it does what you say, then it will be the answer that many of us have
been looking for to simplify our lives as far as Exchange is concerned.
Have you thought about setting up an account at Sourceforge.net?
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