But that's the rub ... Change the first line ... isn't it Nigel ?
if this is done in Windows, the script can get corrupted ...
the result is ^M's all over the place ...
When many of these scripts were first made available,
changes were made directly on the servers , usually with
telnet ... so the files were configured and saved in ISO format ...
not always true today ...
regards
SunDog
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At 05:36 PM 5/23/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Actually it does not depend on having an installation of Perl at all, let
>alone a sane one. I am assuming
>that the enquirer can take my supplied code, change the first line so that
>it points to their Perl install
>directory. Save it as test.pl in a suitable directory, change the
>permissions and then execute it in their
>browser or from the command line. If they can do this they will know that
>they have got most of the set up
>right and can then attempt to execute a 'real' script. Secondly if they do
>not understand html how are they
>going to customise and edit a Guest Book script until it works to their
>satisfaction.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Nigel R
>
>"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel G Romeril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Nigel> Try something like;
>> Nigel> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>> Nigel> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>> Nigel> print "Hello world, it works!\n";
>>
>> Nigel> This should print a line of black text on a white background if
>your path, permissions etc are OK
>>
>> Well, the real simplest is:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo content-type: text/plain
>> echo
>> echo "hello world"
>>
>> which doesn't depend on a sane location of Perl installation,
>> or even understanding HTML. :)
>>
>> If you can get exactly "hello world" from that, you're on your way...
>> if you can't, you need to seek local authority to discover how things
>> are set up.
>>
>> --
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