Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Hello group, Most of my perl programming is on unix; my windows knowledge is limited. So, please be gentle ;-) I have an app that produces data files on one unix machine, then uses scp to move those over to another machine for further processing. The system architecture dictates the two-machine

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
- From: perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Daupert Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:42 AM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows Hello group

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Christian Walde
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:42:03 +0200, Dennis Daupert ddaup...@csc.com wrote: I don't know of a free (as in both beer and non-beer) windows equivalent to scp OR sftp. You might want to look at cygwin. If the tools you're using are GNU, then it most likely has implementations of it that run on

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Raven
Dennis Daupert wrote: Hello group, Most of my perl programming is on unix; my windows knowledge is limited. So, please be gentle ;-) I have an app that produces data files on one unix machine, then uses scp to move those over to another machine for further processing. The system

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Tobias: Dennis - there's a Net::SFTP module ( http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Net-SFTP), which is a pure-perl implementation of the SFTP protocol. The bottom of the page also seems to suggest that various Windows PPM packages are available for it. Hi Tobias, Thanks for the information. The

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Christian: you might want to have a look at the putty toolset: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/: Ah, Christian, There is some precedent for use of putty here. It is a good client tool set. I wish the putty group would build a putty server ;-( best, /dennis

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
-Original Message- From: Dennis Daupert [mailto:ddaup...@csc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:01 AM To: Tobias Hoellrich Cc: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows Hi Tobias, Thanks for the information. The problem

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Christopher Taranto
unix perl app to windows Hello group, Most of my perl programming is on unix; my windows knowledge is limited. So, please be gentle ;-) I have an app that produces data files on one unix machine, then uses scp to move those over to another machine for further processing. The system

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Serguei Trouchelle
Dennis Daupert wrote: Thanks for the information. The problem we've run into using sftp is that we need to have an sftp server running on the target machine. Management are keen on saving money, but also have the fixated paradigm that server products have to be cost money, i.e., have some

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Conor Lillis
@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows Tobias: Dennis - there's a Net::SFTP module ( http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Net-SFTP), which is a pure-perl implementation of the SFTP protocol. The bottom of the page also seems to suggest that various Windows PPM packages

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Lyndon Rickards
---Original Message--- From: Dennis Daupert ddaup...@csc.com Subject: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows Sent: Jun 03 '09 09:42 Hello group, Most of my perl programming is on unix; my windows knowledge is limited. So, please be gentle ;-) I have

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Leighton
first. Cheers, Mark --- Mark Leighton CLIC LAN Supervisor, Information Commons, University of Toronto E-mail: mark{DOT}leighton{AT}utoronto.ca Original Message Subject: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows From: Dennis Daupert ddaup...@csc.com To: perl-win32

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Steve Howard (PFE)
...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Mark Leighton Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:06 AM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows If running on Windows, the best practice for transferring files would simply be through

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Lynn: It is not completely clear to me from the question, if the requirement is to copy windows-windows Yes, windows-windows If the former, perhaps there is no need of additional modules. File::Copy handles UNC path just fine...as in: use File::Copy;..

Re: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Mark: If running on Windows, the best practice for transferring files would simply be through the native SMB filesystem. and more info Mark, thanks for the useful information. That extends what I just read in Lynn's post. It is very helpful to me. And thanks all for the tips and leads.

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Daupert
Steve: Just piggybacking on this a little bit with one more option I appreciate the info on robocopy. I found a pretty good summary on Wikipedia for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy best, /dennis Dennis Daupert, PhD Senior

RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows

2009-06-03 Thread Ken Cornetet
...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Daupert Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:01 AM To: Tobias Hoellrich Cc: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Advice requested, porting unix perl app to windows Tobias