> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:22 PM > To: Bryan R Harris > Cc: Beginners Perl > Subject: Re: HTAB, VTAB in a terminal? > > On Oct 20, Bryan R Harris said: > > > Curses is a CPAN module, correct? > > > > I have an office-full of users here, most of which will not not have > that > > module installed on their workstations. What's the best way to do > something > > like that? Can I have my perl script install that module on their > machines? > > Or can I simply embed that module within my script somehow? > > It's not that easy. Curses is a wrapper around a bunch of C functions and > what-not. I don't know what the simplest non-Curses way of controlling a > terminal is.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're users are accessing (something) via a terminal, wouldn't they all be accessing a central system? In other words, your script would reside on a *NIX box (for argument's sake) whose environment would include Perl and the relevant modules, correct? > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or > RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service > http://www.perlmonks.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? > http://princeton.pm.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
