Re: Problem with Active Perl PPM on Windows

2013-03-08 Thread Jim Gibson
On Mar 8, 2013, at 8:57 PM, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: > Greetings, > > I did a fresh installation of Active Perl version 5.16.2 and while using Perl > Package Manager (PPM) GUI interface, the view all packages (Ctrl + 1) shows > only the packages that comes with standard Perl distribution. > >

Problem with Active Perl PPM on Windows

2013-03-08 Thread *Shaji Kalidasan*
Greetings, I did a fresh installation of Active Perl version 5.16.2 and while using Perl Package Manager (PPM) GUI interface, the view all packages (Ctrl + 1) shows only the packages that comes with standard Perl distribution. It shows the total number of known packages (272 packages), number o

Re: Running into dependency hell with Cygwin when trying to install Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.65 and have all tests pass and not skipped

2013-03-08 Thread Jim Gibson
On Mar 8, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I'm Running into dependency hell with Cygwin when trying to install > Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.65 and have all tests pass and not skipped > > > > So what's the best Perl module that recursively installs all > prerequisites of a package

Running into dependency hell with Cygwin when trying to install Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.65 and have all tests pass and not skipped

2013-03-08 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I'm Running into dependency hell with Cygwin when trying to install Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.65 and have all tests pass and not skipped I wanted to experiment with Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.65 under Cygwin. During the: perl Makefile.PL + make + make test + make install install process, during make test

Net::FTP

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Stinemetz
U sing Net::FTP is there a way to rename a file after locating it and before putting it? For example: $ftp->put('/storage/pcmd/2013-03-08.17:21.-0700.MMEpcmd.gz') || die "can't put file: $!"; Doesn't transfer correctly because the windows FTP server doesn't allow ":" in the file name. Any help

Re: Return values more than 256?

2013-03-08 Thread Charles DeRykus
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Dr.Ruud wrote: > On 2013-03-07 10:21, WFB wrote: > >> waitpid($pid, 0); >> close($trexe); >> my $tr_ret = ($?>>8); > > > Never postpone the reading of a global variable, > just snapshot it as early as possible. > > my $child = waitpid $pid, 0; > my $child_error

Re: beginners Digest 9 Nov 2012 07:32:27 -0000 Issue 4441

2013-03-08 Thread Aaron Madden
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Re: Return values more than 256?

2013-03-08 Thread WFB
On 8 March 2013 11:49, Dr.Ruud wrote: > On 2013-03-07 10:21, WFB wrote: > > waitpid($pid, 0); >> close($trexe); >> my $tr_ret = ($?>>8); >> > > Never postpone the reading of a global variable, > just snapshot it as early as possible. > > my $child = waitpid $pid, 0; > my $child_error = $?;

Re: Return values more than 256?

2013-03-08 Thread Dr.Ruud
On 2013-03-07 10:21, WFB wrote: waitpid($pid, 0); close($trexe); my $tr_ret = ($?>>8); Never postpone the reading of a global variable, just snapshot it as early as possible. my $child = waitpid $pid, 0; my $child_error = $?; # snapshot a global $child == -1 and die "No child with pid