Re: libwin32-0.26 installation problem on linux

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Hi Sasan, You're getting these errors because libWin32 is not compatible with Linux. It only works on Windows systems. cheers, JeffG Sasan Tehrani wrote: Hello, When trying to install this module on a linux box, I get the following error: ERROR from evaluation of

AVG false positives in ActivePerl 819

2006-09-27 Thread Jeff Griffiths
This is just a headsup to the list regarding an issue I'm dealing with today. There seems to be a false positive result from scanning ActivePerl 819 with AVG AntiVirus in Perl\lib\auto\Cwd\Cwd.dll The false positive is for 'Backdoor.Generic.OME' I couldn't reproduce this by scanning 819 with

Re: ppm files on a CD

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Griffiths
John Deighan wrote: We normally install Perl and all the libraries we need by using ppm over the Internet. However, we now have a need for an installation mechanism that doesn't require access to the Internet. I'm pretty sure that (if I knew what I was doing), I could download the files

Re: Perl OO not looks like its mother

2006-04-13 Thread Jeff Griffiths
So Phal wrote: HI, Perl OO seems not stamdard as C++/Java. For PHP the OO is very similar to C++/JAva, so why many web programmer prefer PHP then Perl. What do you think? Why should Perl have to be like C++ or Java? Also, I don't think PHP is a fair comparison. Decent OO support in PHP has

Re: old messages? ( I think we're blocking now... )

2006-03-08 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Chris Wagner wrote: Did anyone else also just receive a boat load of old messages from the list? I've got about 25 and more coming. They go back to October. And the really funny thing about it is they're all from threads I participated in. I checked out the headers and they're originating

Re: When ActivePerl 5.8.8 out?

2006-02-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
when it's done, of course =) JeffG Ng, Bill wrote: But when will then ... be now? Bill in Brooklyn (SpaceBalls Reference for those unaware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hicks, Robert Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:23 PM To:

Re: Why do they insist on making PPM so difficult to troubleshoot ??

2005-12-28 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Sisyphus wrote: Yes - that's possibly what I was trying to find. I've since had time to take a more thorough look at the ppm documentation and, in so doing, found that the ppd file can be displayed by running: ppm describe -ppd DBI Interestingly, that displays a slightly different ppd file

Re: Why is PerlApp's .exe package smaller than PAR?

2005-12-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR wrote: Also, I may end up distributing more than 1 Perl application to the same host. Is there a way for multiple distributions to share common libraries (maybe core dlls) so that the file can be even smaller? I don't mind if the libraries are thrown into

Re: What's up with AS ppm repository? (was - Why do they insist on making PPM so difficult to troubleshoot ??)

2005-12-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
PPM is down. =) We're working on it, and hope to have things back to normal later today ( keep in mind we're PST over here, and developers sleep in apparently ) JeffG Lynn. Rickards wrote: Lynn. Rickards wrote: Sisyphus wrote: Hi, D:\pscrptppm install DBI PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and

Re: What's up with AS ppm repository? (was - Why do they insist on making PPM so difficult to troubleshoot ??)

2005-12-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
: The loose theory so far is that this is load related. Some people insist on trying to aggressively scrape ppm, even though we run rsync now. =) JeffG Jeff Griffiths wrote: PPM is down. =) We're working on it, and hope to have things back to normal later today ( keep in mind we're PST over here

Re: regenerating AS perl html docs

2005-10-07 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Hi Chris All the docs are also available online ins a very static format: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ASPNTOC-ACTIVEPERL/ These should be viewable even if you're still using IE 3 or something. Chris Wagner wrote: If I don't hear from somebody at ActiveState about a remedy for this

Re: GTK2 Accessibility on Win32, Alternative GUi Libs?

2005-09-20 Thread jeff griffiths
ActiveState recently released the Tkx module on CPAN; Tkx works in a similar fashion to Python's Tkinter or the existing Tcl::Tk module. Tkx provides a clean interface into scripting Tk from Perl, and should support MSAA version 1 at least. Tkx also allows you to use themed Tk widgets; an

Re: DBD-mysql module

2005-07-26 Thread jeff griffiths
Scott Campbell wrote: ActiveState, is it possible for you to update your DBD-mysql module to the latest (available via PPM)? Currently you have 2.9008, while 3.0002 is the latest. ppm search dbd-mysql Searching in Active Repositories ... 10. DBD-mysql[3.0002] MySQL driver for

Re: Ppm and Crypt::SSleay

2005-06-10 Thread jeff griffiths
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:18:10AM -0400, Charles Maier wrote: I am having some problems getting hold of and installing Crypt::Ssleay. I found the Winnipeg repository has the module and Activestate does not!! When I try to ppm install the Winnipeg module.. It tells me No suitable installation

Re: Ppm and Crypt::SSleay

2005-06-10 Thread jeff griffiths
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:06:14PM -0400, Hugh Loebner wrote: Sorry, Charles, I don't know the answer. It's all magic to me. However, JeffG mentioned a different site for perl 5.6 Are you using that version? My best guess is that Charles is trying to install a 5.8 ppd into ActivePerl 5.6.

Re: Ppm and Crypt::SSleay

2005-06-10 Thread jeff griffiths
job much easier to do by providing this service. /gets on soapbox cheers, JeffG Hugh On 6/10/05, jeff griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:18:10AM -0400, Charles Maier wrote: I am having some problems getting hold of and installing Crypt::Ssleay. I

Re: Ppm and server availability

2005-06-09 Thread jeff griffiths
Hi Charles, Thanks for posting about the problem. The server ppm.activestate.com had a hardware problem early this morning (a bad power supply actually) but is back in business as I type this. Please confirm that ppm is again working fo you. cheers, JeffG On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:39:26AM

Re: Upgrading LWP library ?????????????

2005-06-07 Thread jeff griffiths
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:19:09PM +1000, Sisyphus wrote: - Original Message - From: Charles Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:58 AM Subject: Upgrading LWP library ?

Re: [OT] Spam to list

2005-04-04 Thread jeff griffiths
Chris Wagner wrote: Neither is better as far as I'm concerned. If I'm interleaving my reply with the old message I go on the bottom. If it's just adding info/comments I put it on top with just a few lines quoted for context. If a direct reply to the quoted text, then on the bottom. I think

Re: [OT] Spam to list

2005-04-01 Thread jeff griffiths
$Bill Luebkert wrote: Sisyphus wrote: Hi, Whenever I reply to this list I receive a message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject: Symantec Mail Security detected that you sent a message containing prohibited content that is considered spam - please call email recipient. ...

Re: [OT] Spam to list

2005-04-01 Thread jeff griffiths
Chris Wagner wrote: At 10:47 AM 4/1/05 -0800, jeff griffiths wrote: The one thing we *could* do to mitigate this is to have list emails look like they come *from* the list, not the poster. Currently none of our lists work this way, and I believe this is for a collection of technical

Re: Win32-GUI

2005-01-19 Thread Jeff Griffiths
on a variety of ppm repositories at the bottom of the module page. best regards, Jeff Griffiths Technical Support Engineer ActiveState - Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages http://www.ActiveState.com *Charles Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Crypt::SSLeay, Permissions for IIS?

2005-01-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
IIRC IIS permissions have to be set such that the IUSR account has at least read access to the entire c:\per\bin tree, and that changing permissions on one file will not suffice. This is IIS 4-era knowledge though, and at that time it was related to ActiveX objects, so it may not be as

help! mod_perl on Win32 error

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff Griffiths
I'm trying to get mod_perl running on Windows using: Apache 2.0.52 ActivePerl 5.8.6 build 811 mod_perl from theoryx5 the relevant httpd.conf bits are: ## Apache 2 mod_perl stuff { jeffg } LoadFile C:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so PerlModule Apache2 mod_perl seems

Re: Perl for 64 bit XP

2004-12-16 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Chris wrote: I need to move some scripts to a 64-bit XP box (beta of XP). Is there a 64-bit Perl available? Or should I be able to run 32-bit Perl on my 64-bit box? If you are running 32-bit XP, any 32-bit Perl should work. If you are running XP x64 it's supposedly backwards compatible with all

Re: drag-n-drop problem with build 810

2004-12-02 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Arnold Wiegert wrote: Where do I find older builds?? ftp://ftp.activestate.com ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs

Re: Win32::OLE - Threadsafe?

2004-11-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Paul Sobey wrote: Just realised if you turn that use into a require Win32::OLE after the threads have been spawned, it works ok. Anyone know why this should be so? I thought I read somewhere that Win32::OLE was threadsafe but it seems not! Seeing as Jan occasionally mentions that he wuld like to

Re: RE : DBD-Oracle

2004-09-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Eran Kaufman wrote: I had this problem in the past and after doing some research I've found there's a problem with Oracle DBD in ActivePerl version 5.8 and up, due to license issues. Although it's possible to find suitable Oracle DBD module for this version, the simplest way is to install

Re: GD module for Graphing on 5.8 installs

2004-08-13 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Sisyphus wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I don't follow the list closely, but thoguht I'd ask here before bothering the ActiveState support. With 5.6 we installed the GD module, which was used heavily for graphing duties on a web server. Wtih 5.8 the GD module is not longer

Re: Multi thread Tk problem

2004-07-30 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Arms, Mike wrote: carlo filippini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quite complex Multi-thread Tk application. A problem has started to appear some time ago. Sometimes the application crashes and I get the following: Just a caution as I did not look at your code, but it is a known issue that

Re: AS perl 810 source anf MinGW

2004-06-18 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Hey, We ran two builds with success. Here is what we did: 1. Downloaded the 810 source zip file from downloads.activestate.com 2. Extracted the source 3. Made sure that include was pointed to vc6.0/include and lib was pointed to vc6.0/lib 4. Switched to the 810 extracted source and typed: nmake

WinXP Sp2 / AMD 64 and ActivePerl?

2004-06-07 Thread Jeff Griffiths
This is a bit of a long-shot, but has anyone tried running ActivePerl on a Windows XP / SP2 beta machine on AMD 64 hardware? Reason I ask is that we currently don't have any hardware that supports MicroSoft's new NX hardware security features ( currently only the AMD 64 bits ) but MicroSoft has

Re: Kindly delete me from this mailing list

2004-05-20 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Rob, Bill: To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs cheers, JeffG rob wrote: Thank you for the info received to date. I would like to be deleted from this listing. Its just too much Thank you in anticipation Regards Rob Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kick this guy off the list please

2004-05-18 Thread Jeff Griffiths
I've set him to 'no mail' and emailed him as such. cheers, JeffG Bharucha, Nikhil wrote: He's a Brazilian (or Brasilian)... Tudo Bem (All is Well)! -Original Message- From: Grakowsky, Richard (ETS: Communications and Network Services) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Re: help needed

2004-04-06 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR wrote: Hi, i am a student at collage who has never used Perl before. I need to crate an program that looks through a text file, find the data need and put it in an graph. I have no idea how to go about this . can any one out there help me with this. your help will be

Re: Grep html

2004-03-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Hi Chris, You're looking for LWP: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.76/lib/LWP.pm basic code: use strict; use CGI; use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new; $ua-agent('LWP-Spider'); my $url = 'http://www.activestate.com'; # default url ## check if there is a url as an argument

[Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: Grep html]

2004-03-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
not calling names here, but for all list members, please please configure your out of office autoreply when on vacation etc so that you don't spam people posting to the list. I don't want to unsub you, but I will if I get complaints. regards, JeffG

Re: Using PNG images

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Jonathan Epstein wrote: Hmm... is there a Tk::SVG or TK::some-other-scalable-graphic out there? Sorry, I guess that this isn't really a question about PPMs ... really a question about modules. well that's why the list is here. i for one didn't know Tk::PNG was bundled into the new Tk =) thanks

Re: Perl GUI ??

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Griffiths
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one additional question for a windoze environment. Which of these GUI's can be compiled into exe's? Does the ActiveState tool kit and Perl2exe work equally well for Win32::GUI, tk, and wxPerl? all of the toolkits should work fine with PerlApp. there is a noted

Re: Trying to install Perl on XP Professional -- getting dialog error 2755, 110

2003-12-16 Thread Jeff Griffiths
this is the tricky thing with XP for many users. XP uses NTFS by default, which means that ACL permissions are applied to all filesystems. The Activeperl msi installer is actually installed using the MSI service, run as the SYSTEM account and NOT as your user account, so many users run into

Re: Strange perl problem on W2000 ( longish email )

2003-11-07 Thread Jeff Griffiths
, etc. best regards, Jeff Griffiths, Technical Support ActiveState, a division of Sophos http://www.activestate.com Huub Peters wrote: Like I said before, I have a strong feeling it has something to do with SP4, that's the main difference between the new and the old machine. I've seen the list

RE: Error message from hanmir.com

2003-07-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
i've gotten these as well, but the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't subscribed. what i expect is happening is that another email address that IS subscribed is being forwarded to this email address. tracking this would be easy of the mail server at the other end didn't strip the headers out before

RE: Error message from hanmir.com

2003-07-23 Thread Jeff Griffiths
thoughts about doing list culling like this en mass in a relatively polite way, let me know. jeffG -Original Message- From: Jeff Griffiths Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:12 AM To: Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: Error message from hanmir.com i've gotten these as well

RE: Recursive design

2003-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
From: Will of Thornhenge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Besides, maybe I'll learn something. I've heard that before, usually coming out of my own mouth. hope you're stocked up on caffeine =) ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

RE: OH NOOO SPAM ATTACK!

2003-07-10 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Hi, I'm the moderator of this list at ActiveState (ie the guy that rejects all the nigerian spam). I'm going to look into doing this - I think it's a good idea as well as it saves me from having overly complex inbox filtering rules. thanks Martin! Jeff Griffiths ActiveState Technical Support

RE: Mail-Sender Port for AS Perl 5.8 (Win)

2003-06-27 Thread Jeff Griffiths
FYI Our build engineer has gotten Mail-Sender to compile properly for ActivePerl 5.8 - it is now available in ppm. yay Tj! JeffG -Original Message- From: Michael Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail-Sender Port