----- Original Message ----- From: "AustinTanney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:43 AM Subject: Probably a stupid question
Hi folks, I'm a total novice and just teaching myself perl. I'm going thru the "beginning perl" book. One thing about it is that it recommends using the extension *.plx rather than *.pl. I am using active state 5.8 and it doesnt seem to recognise the extension. Now realistically this doesnt matter in the slightest, however, i was just wondering, is the book slightly outdated and should i just be using *.pl? Thanks Austin Hi Austin - The .plx extension is a ActiveState convention for use in MS IIS perl-embedded web pages; if you script is a .plx, the ActiveState IIS interface loads ans compiles your module only once (ala mod_perl) thus speeding up the processing. For normal command line scripts, jus use .pl like everybody else :) Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
