>>> 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?
Nope, the script is on an NFS mounted fileserver, but each is running them on a local workstation, so each user is using /usr/bin/perl on their local machine. - B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>