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Today's topics:
Perl sample scripts web site <rawnad@hotmail.com>
Re: Perl sample scripts web site (Andreas Kahari)
Re: perl sites? <dbohl@sgi.com>
Re: Perl unusable as a programming language <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Re: Perl unusable as a programming language <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Re: Perl unusable as a programming language (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
Re: Perl unusable as a programming language <kaleja@estarcion.com>
Re: Quick Network Ping <peckert@epicrealm.com>
Re: Quick Network Ping <sariq@texas.net>
Re: Quick Network Ping <peckert@epicrealm.com>
Re: simple array and scalar question squidrocks@my-deja.com
Re: simple array and scalar question <glauber.ribeiroNOglSPAM@experian.com.invalid>
Re: simple array and scalar question squidrocks@my-deja.com
Re: simple regexp question <bg@skypoint.com>
the end of perl? <japh@flashmail.com>
Re: the end of perl? (Sam Holden)
Re: the end of perl? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: the end of perl? <japh@flashmail.com>
Re: the end of perl? <mdemello@pound.ruf.rice.edu>
Re: the end of perl? (Brandon Metcalf)
Trouble with Arrays of Hashes <tlanierNOtlSPAM@atmel.com.invalid>
Re: Trouble with Arrays of Hashes (Sam Holden)
Re: Unable to get this the new version of perl to insta <apage.net[remove]@usa.net>
Very silly question <jon@videoflicks.com>
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:46:17 -0400
From: Rawnad <rawnad@hotmail.com>
Subject: Perl sample scripts web site
Message-Id: <3936CB99.EE2A189@hotmail.com>
I am looking for websites that contain sample Perl scripts and
tutorials. Any hints? I have done the search thing however I may be
missing some.
Thank-you in advance for any assistance possible.
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 22:47:56 +0100
From: andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE (Andreas Kahari)
Subject: Re: Perl sample scripts web site
Message-Id: <3936cbfc@merganser.its.uu.se>
In article <3936CB99.EE2A189@hotmail.com>, Rawnad <rawnad@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I am looking for websites that contain sample Perl scripts and
>tutorials. Any hints? I have done the search thing however I may be
>missing some.
>
>Thank-you in advance for any assistance possible.
>
>
"Picking Up Perl" is a good tutorial:
http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/
/A
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:19:40 -0500
From: Dale Bohl <dbohl@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: perl sites?
Message-Id: <3936B74C.F597B19E@sgi.com>
Mr MiMiK wrote:
>
> can u ppl please tell me of some good sites on perl, wether is be
> tutorials, scripts, or ur personal page, thanx
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> D4WG P4CK
http://www.perl.com/pub
http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/perl-man
http://www.perlmonth.com/index.html?issue=10
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/
http://www.perlmasters.com/
http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/archive/0789708663/ch20.htm
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Thanks,
Dale
Dale Bohl
SGI Information Services
dbohl@sgi.com
(715)-726-8406
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:03:31 GMT
From: Dan Sugalski <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Subject: Re: Perl unusable as a programming language
Message-Id: <TzxZ4.99001$hT2.404919@news1.rdc1.ct.home.com>
In comp.lang.perl.misc Malcolm Dew-Jones <yf110@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
> Dan Sugalski (dan@tuatha.sidhe.org) wrote:
> : $1's not global for one thing, but more importantly if it got localized
> : the way you'd think it did (and the way it mostly does) the pass by
> : reference ought to get the pre-localized version of $1, which it doesn't.
> : Try this fun bit with $1 and recursion:
> : sub foo {
> : my $thing = shift;
> : $thing =~ s/(.)$//;
> : foo($thing) if $thing;
> : print "$1\n";
> : }
> : foo("Hi there!");
> : What do you think it'll print?
> Your example appears to prove that $1 _is_ a global. The value printed (9
> times) is the last value matched.
> I don't quite understand the rest of what you said.
> For interest I tried local($1), as in these snippets
> sub foo {
> my $thing = shift;
> local($1);
> and also
> { local($1);
> foo($thing) if $thing;
> }
> but neither seemed to make a difference. In a simple example (just a
> block) local($1) did protect an outer $1 from an inner m/()/ => $1.
Right. There's only one $1 *per block*. Not per lexical scope. It looks
like it's lexically scoped, or at least localized on block entry, but it
really isn't. If it was, the recursive test would localize $1 the same way
the multiple block trick does. Entering a sub block localizes $1, so you'd
think that entering a block via recursion would, but it doesn't.
> That might be either a bug or a misunderstanding on my part.
Misunderstanding. Which is understandable, since it's both kinda odd and
undocumented.
Dan
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Date: 01 Jun 2000 08:23:05 +0100
From: Edward Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Perl unusable as a programming language
Message-Id: <xn966rtuap2.fsf@pinga.doc.ic.ac.uk>
simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens) writes:
>what undocumented things?
>Perl doesn't have them. If things are undocumented it's because the
>documenters haven't found them yet. Or that we have found them, and they
>were too ugly to easily comprehend and be useful. So if you start
>programming "outside the box" why do you feel you should be protected?
How do you know what is inside and outside the box? I've never seen
any definitive list. Is there a warning flag that tells you when
something is undocumented? Or do you have to cross-check every line
of code against the perl on-line docs?
>You're not protected in any other language, because even fully specified
>languages have "undocumented" components. C has rather a lot of nasal
>demons; Perl tries to keep them to a minimum.
In C the undocumented components are documented :-). And a good
compiler will warn you about them. In Perl there seems no reasonable
way of knowing.
--
Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 12:08:19 -0800
From: yf110@victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
Subject: Re: Perl unusable as a programming language
Message-Id: <3936b4a3@news.victoria.tc.ca>
Dan Sugalski (dan@tuatha.sidhe.org) wrote:
: In comp.lang.perl.misc Malcolm Dew-Jones <yf110@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
: > That might be either a bug or a misunderstanding on my part.
: Misunderstanding. Which is understandable, since it's both kinda odd and
: undocumented.
Nice example, thanks.
Threads such as this as good for learning things. I have been forced to
clarify my understanding of local.
The combination of compile time vs runtime behaviour, and lexical vs "run
time" scope, is the sort of thing that makes Perl interesting and
powerful. Its kinda odd compared to something like BASIC, or C, but not
compared to some other languages like Forth (where words compile
themselves to produce their own runtime behaviour).
Like other things in the Perl documentation, it _is_ correctly documented,
but hard to appreciate until you understand it (and perhaps the
documentation is incomplete).
=item local EXPR
...C<local()> isn't what most people think of as "local".
A local modifies the listed variables to be local to the enclosing
block ...
I'm not sure how someone would document the different aspects of local in
a manner that would be clear to someone who doesn't already appreciate how
it works.
something like
At compile time a block is identified which identifies the scope
of the local. At run time, upon first entering that block and
arriving at the place of the local, an alternate version of the
global variable is placed into the global symbol table. Now any
code that accesses that global variable (whether in the original
"lexical" scope or not) will be accessing the "localized"
version. When the running code reaches the originally identified
"end-of-block" then the value extant at the time the block was
entered is placed back into the global variable.
This description ignores the issue of the gap between the start of
the block and the placement of the local within the block.
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:23:07 -0700
From: Russell Bornschlegel <kaleja@estarcion.com>
Subject: Re: Perl unusable as a programming language
Message-Id: <3936AA0B.9C36450@estarcion.com>
Edward Avis wrote:
>
> Russell Bornschlegel <kaleja@estarcion.com> writes:
>
> >>You can't derive the
> >>behaviour for 100% from the docs, therefore, your might just as well
> >>consider Perl's behaviour to be non-deterministic for those cases.
> >
> >Nope, because Perl should do the same thing with a given construct
> >every single time,
>
> The construct foo(42) will give the same result every single time.
> But how can you be sure that foo(x) it will give the result you expect
> for all x? There might be some unexpected strangeness when x is a
> pattern match variable, or dynamically scoped, or tied, or something
> else.
I understand that. I'm just lobbying for very careful use of the term
"non-deterministic". Yeah, I'm the same guy playing fast and loose with
the phrase "proving a program correct". :)
> Even just testing all integers is impossible.
I may be out of my depth here. Does Perl have DWIMmery that depends on
particular literal-constant integers? (Actually, C does; integer 0 may be
interpreted differently from other integers in pointer contexts.)
- Russell B
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:26:58 GMT
From: Paul Eckert <peckert@epicrealm.com>
Subject: Re: Quick Network Ping
Message-Id: <3936B7DB.DE637C7C@epicrealm.com>
Abigail wrote:
> # Returns true if the device is available, and undef if not.
> sub ping {undef}
I'm not sure what you're suggesting with this little snippet. Can you
provide
a short example program?
--
Paul Eckert
Sr. Software Engineer
Epicrealm Inc.
1651 N. Glenville Dr., Suite 212
Richardson, TX 75081
(972) 479-0135 x300
peckert@epicrealm.com
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:37:19 -0500
From: Tom Briles <sariq@texas.net>
Subject: Re: Quick Network Ping
Message-Id: <3936BB6F.EE86B1B4@texas.net>
Paul Eckert wrote:
>
> Abigail wrote:
> > # Returns true if the device is available, and undef if not.
> > sub ping {undef}
>
> I'm not sure what you're suggesting with this little snippet. Can you
> provide
> a short example program?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
sub ping {undef}
print ping('host') ? "alive\n" : "dead\n";
__END__
Oh, and you might want to reread the original post.
- Tom
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 20:20:49 GMT
From: Paul Eckert <peckert@epicrealm.com>
Subject: Re: Quick Network Ping
Message-Id: <3936C479.FE6B5953@epicrealm.com>
Tom Briles wrote:
> Oh, and you might want to reread the original post.
Uh oh. I get it. ha ha.
--
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Sr. Software Engineer
Epicrealm Inc.
1651 N. Glenville Dr., Suite 212
Richardson, TX 75081
(972) 479-0135 x300
peckert@epicrealm.com
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:05:09 GMT
From: squidrocks@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: simple array and scalar question
Message-Id: <3936a46a.73914218@news.it.gvsu.edu>
On 01 Jun 2000 18:03:52 +0100, nobull@mail.com wrote:
>
>For that matter if @file only ever has one element why use an array at
>all?
>
The reason it is an array is because I had to grep through a webpage
to find the file in the firstplace.
@link=grep /expression/, @webpage; #where @webpage contains the html
#for that site.
from there I used the split function to cut the html tags from the
link.
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:16:43 -0700
From: glauber <glauber.ribeiroNOglSPAM@experian.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: simple array and scalar question
Message-Id: <0eb312ee.2debb5ca@usw-ex0103-019.remarq.com>
In article <3936a46a.73914218@news.it.gvsu.edu>, squidrocks@my-
deja.com wrote:
[...]
>The reason it is an array is because I had to grep through a
webpage
>to find the file in the firstplace.
>
>@link=grep /expression/, @webpage; #where @webpage contains
the html
>
> #for that
site.
> from there I used the split function to cut the html tags from
the
>link.
If you have an array with one or more filenames in it, you'll
want to do
foreach my $fname ( sort @fnames )
{
if (-e $fname)
{
#do something
}
else
{
#do something else
}
}
(the "sort" is optional, of course)
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:52:24 GMT
From: squidrocks@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: simple array and scalar question
Message-Id: <3936bd0d.2811558@news.it.gvsu.edu>
On 01 Jun 2000 18:03:52 +0100, nobull@mail.com wrote:
>That's right. An array used in a scalar context returns the number of
>elements.
>You can say $tl=$file[0] or ($tl)=@file
I tried it but no data showed up in the scalar. So, I copied the
array data to an outside file and then copied the outside data's
content to $tl.
open (NF,"filename");
print NF @file;
yada...yada
$tl=<NF>;
So I finally got the data I wanted to the scalar so I can use it in my
if statement, so I thought. To test what $tl contains I did a print
$tl afterwards and it does have what I want it to. So why won't it
work in my if statement when if I use
$tl='filename'; does?
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:21:08 -0500
From: "Barry Grupe" <bg@skypoint.com>
Subject: Re: simple regexp question
Message-Id: <8h69ho$2f0q$1@shadow.skypoint.net>
> Note that if you use $, you would allow domains ending in a newline.
>
>
>
> Abigail
Yeah, I finally figured that one out. Testing all these examples have made
things much more clear. Soon I'll graduate to pack.. :-)
B
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:53:53 -0500
From: Flounder <japh@flashmail.com>
Subject: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <3936CD61.5963D8FE@flashmail.com>
What the hell! I know this is not true I have not seen anything about
it here or at www.perl.com or anywhere. But I have seen other places
people saying Larry declared that they are stopping all development on
perl. Is it true because i do not belive it. I saw some posts on
comp.lang.ruby and at this url:
http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
This has to be total bull@%*&
Flounder
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 21:02:59 GMT
From: sholden@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au (Sam Holden)
Subject: Re: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <slrn8jdjs3.h0f.sholden@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au>
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:53:53 -0500, Flounder <japh@flashmail.com> wrote:
>What the hell! I know this is not true I have not seen anything about
>it here or at www.perl.com or anywhere. But I have seen other places
>people saying Larry declared that they are stopping all development on
>perl. Is it true because i do not belive it. I saw some posts on
>comp.lang.ruby and at this url:
>
>http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
>
>This has to be total bull@%*&
Why don't you read a few more segfault stories and decide for yourself...
--
Sam
Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix.
--Larry Wall
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 23:03:19 +0100
From: andkaha@hello.to.REMOVE (Andreas Kahari)
Subject: Re: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <3936cf97@merganser.its.uu.se>
In article <3936CD61.5963D8FE@flashmail.com>,
Flounder <japh@flashmail.com> wrote:
>What the hell! I know this is not true I have not seen anything about
>it here or at www.perl.com or anywhere. But I have seen other places
>people saying Larry declared that they are stopping all development on
>perl. Is it true because i do not belive it. I saw some posts on
>comp.lang.ruby and at this url:
>
>http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
>
I don't know if you have ever noticed anything strange about the
"news" on SegFault... but it's all parodies.
Sorry for breaking it to you in this way.
>This has to be total bull@%*&
Yes, that was bullshit.
/A
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:02:25 -0500
From: Flounder <japh@flashmail.com>
Subject: Re: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <3936CF61.5182C9F0@flashmail.com>
Flounder wrote:
> What the hell! I know this is not true I have not seen anything about
> it here or at www.perl.com or anywhere. But I have seen other places
> people saying Larry declared that they are stopping all development on
> perl. Is it true because i do not belive it. I saw some posts on
> comp.lang.ruby and at this url:
>
> http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
>
> This has to be total bull@%*&
>
> Flounder
>
> --
> >+++++++[<++++++++++>-]<++++.---------.+.++++.++.
Oh shit i should of paid more attention instead of just assumming shit
that site i pointed to was segfault and just a joke. I am such a
dumbass. I feel really stupid now. oops.
Flounder
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 21:08:05 GMT
From: Martin Julian DeMello <mdemello@pound.ruf.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <8h6jbl$d3l$3@joe.rice.edu>
Flounder <japh@flashmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
> This has to be total bull@%*&
use Sense::Humour; :)
But thanks for the URL - best laugh I've had all day.
--
Martin DeMello
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 21:40:07 GMT
From: bmetcalf@baynetworks.com (Brandon Metcalf)
Subject: Re: the end of perl?
Message-Id: <8h6l7n$rcm$1@spinner.corpeast.baynetworks.com>
japh@flashmail.com writes:
> What the hell! I know this is not true I have not seen anything about
> it here or at www.perl.com or anywhere. But I have seen other places
> people saying Larry declared that they are stopping all development on
> perl. Is it true because i do not belive it. I saw some posts on
> comp.lang.ruby and at this url:
>
> http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3905b40e-05c0a760
>
> This has to be total bull@%*&
Surely you're kidding...
Brandon
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:01:22 -0700
From: Tony Lanier <tlanierNOtlSPAM@atmel.com.invalid>
Subject: Trouble with Arrays of Hashes
Message-Id: <19856b4a.af3ae1b3@usw-ex0101-007.remarq.com>
Hi,
I have been having trouble using an Array of Hashes (AoH). The
file that I am parsing looks like this:
Library: common SClib
Library: common Common
Library: at5600 StdLib
I'm generating the AoH like this:
if (/Library:/)
{
$library{$line[1]} = $line[2];
push @AoH, {%library};
}
The trouble I'm having is when I implement this loop:
for $i (0 .. $#AoH)
{
print "$i\n";
for $j (keys %{$AoH[$i]} )
{
print "$j\n";
$sim_libraries .= "-y $cbic_kit\/$j\/$AoH[$i]{$j} ";
}
}
The output looks like this:
0
common
1
common
2
at5600
common
HUH?!?!?! This doesn't make any sense! It appears that the inner
loop has a mind of its own and wants to loop more than it should.
BTW, I got this routine from the O'Reilly book Programming Perl.
Any help someone can give would be much appreciated.
Tony
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Date: 1 Jun 2000 21:09:30 GMT
From: sholden@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au (Sam Holden)
Subject: Re: Trouble with Arrays of Hashes
Message-Id: <slrn8jdk8a.h0f.sholden@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au>
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:01:22 -0700,
Tony Lanier <tlanierNOtlSPAM@atmel.com.invalid> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been having trouble using an Array of Hashes (AoH). The
>file that I am parsing looks like this:
>
>Library: common SClib
>Library: common Common
>Library: at5600 StdLib
>
>I'm generating the AoH like this:
>
>if (/Library:/)
>{
> $library{$line[1]} = $line[2];
> push @AoH, {%library};
>}
Notice that %library is a gobal hash.
Notice that you don't ever clear it out.
I'm assuming there's a loop around that if somewhere otherwise how does it all
get inserted...
So what you do is :
%library = () at the start
%library = (common => SClib) after the first time you do that loop
%library = (common => Common) after the second time
%library = (common => Common, at5600 => StdLib) after the third time...
>
>The trouble I'm having is when I implement this loop:
>
>for $i (0 .. $#AoH)
>{
> print "$i\n";
> for $j (keys %{$AoH[$i]} )
> {
> print "$j\n";
> $sim_libraries .= "-y $cbic_kit\/$j\/$AoH[$i]{$j} ";
> }
>}
>
>The output looks like this:
>
>0
>common
>1
>common
>2
>at5600
>common
>
>HUH?!?!?! This doesn't make any sense! It appears that the inner
>loop has a mind of its own and wants to loop more than it should.
>BTW, I got this routine from the O'Reilly book Programming Perl.
>Any help someone can give would be much appreciated.
Either do 'a %library = ();' after the push.
Or a 'my %library;' at the start of the if block.
--
Sam
Any computer scientist who praises orthogonality should be sentenced to
use an Etch-a-Sketch.
-- Larry Wall
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:18:32 -0400
From: "Zowwie" <apage.net[remove]@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Unable to get this the new version of perl to install.
Message-Id: <sjdh8spk5ri75@corp.supernews.com>
If the installation of Perl is on a WinNT4.0 system there are several places
in the registry that may have Perl keys.
1) The initial install of perl
2) If NT is running IIS.. There may be entries inside the registry for these
also. (See MS Knowledge base... Search on Perl AND IIS.
I myself have never had a problem installing a NEW version of Perl on NT...
But if you MUST remove the first installation to install the new... Here are
some pointers.
1) Check the Control Panel ADD/REMOVE programs for an uninstall routine.
2) If non-existent... You must perform removal manually.
2b) BACK UP REGISTRY BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
3) Remove registry entries pertaining to Perl.
4) Remove old Perl directory.
5) Install new Purl AFTER a reboot.
6) Double check if Perl still functions after reboot by going to CMD and
typing Purl -V
If this is a MISSION CRITICAL box... I would highly recommend that you
backup the entire box before modification of the registry.
IIS versions before 4.0 require special settings for Perl in the registry...
See MS knowledge base for Perl AND IIS.
I have also seen problems with the Perl keys with IIS... make sure that they
are lower case.. And not %S %S.
If you have an hesitation... Don't do it. :)
PS-You may want to check a NT group for additional instructions.
Good luck.
"Dale Turner 1" <dturner@raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:39367F6F.A08A96DB@raytheon.com...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems installing the latest version of PERL.
> I checked the version that is installed and found that is a leftover
> from the NT server resource kit. I checked in all the places in
> the registry the app note said to look but found nothing. I did a
> FIND on PERL and found entries but i did not feel comfortable
> deleting registry entries.
>
> I could sure use a good uninstall program about know.
>
> Any ideas how to uninstall the old version of perl.????
>
> Dale Turner
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> C:\>perl -v
>
> This is perl, version 5.001
>
> Unofficial patchlevel 1m.
>
> Copyright 1987-1994, Larry Wall
> Win32 port Copyright (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights
> reserved.
> Developed by hip communications inc., http://info.hip.com/info/
>
> Perl for Win32 Build 107
> Built Apr 29 1996@22:56:57
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
> or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source
> kit.
>
> C:\>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:56:33 GMT
From: "Jon Gage" <jon@videoflicks.com>
Subject: Very silly question
Message-Id: <RdzZ4.36$fY1.19027@198.235.216.4>
I'm a total Perl novice, and I'm trying to get an app we received running.
Unfortunately I don't have DBI installed. This is where I begin to sound
retarded; I don't know what DBI is, or what it does. I'm trying to install
the package at the command line with "ppm install dbi", as per instructions
but I keep getting a message indicating that a PPD couldn't be found.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Jon
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