Tim, Thanks a lot for this.. Thanks to you and a few others on this list I now have Perl running properly on my server !!!!!!!
Well - guess I can kiss the Summer goodbye ...... ha ha ;-) Thanks again Anadi >Not sure what happened, every time I have installed, ActiveState >updated the path. When you installed, did you have admin rights? > >Anyway, what you want to do is right click 'My Computer', the pick >'Properties'. On the System Properties pop up, go to the 'Advanced' >tab and pick the 'Environment Variables' button. In the 'System >Variables' section edit the "Path" variable and add Perl. Mine looks >something like this ==> D:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT; >8<---snipped > >I would also suggest editing or adding the PATHEXT variable to >include .pl (again, mine looks like this >.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.pl;8<---snipped > >You will need admin rights to do this. Now you should be able to type >perl -v at a cmd prompt and get a good response. Also, you should be >able to type 'hello' in the dir you have hello.pl > ><hello.pl> >#!perl -w >use strict; > >print "hello world\n"; ></hello.pl> _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
