Re: vx - vmx - tip hardwire via perl

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Drew
The usual way add an " " (i.e newline) in perl is to use \n . eg $hello="hello\n"; print $hello; prints hello followed by a new line. I assume this is what you mean by "" A. On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Jerry Preston wrote: > Hi! > > Can perl deal with vx or vmx? I can access "tip

Re: @INC configuration

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Drew
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Artur F. Pimentel wrote: > Hello All: > > Is there some way to configure the @INC in perl enviroment? > There are two woys that I know of... but I am no expert! You can either re-build perl, as *I think* @INC is determined at compile time; You can als

Re: stop the Madness

2002-05-17 Thread Alan Drew
Sorry - sent this to the wrong addy by mistake.. :O) A. > > On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Timothy Johnson wrote: > >> ... Yesterday I even caught myself >> writing code on a piece of napkin on my lunch >> > I have been doing that for years - just not with perl. I always find > the

Re: Setting limit coredumpsize

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Drew
You could try using shell - the module tha allows you to use shell commands as subroutines. e.g: use shell; $uptime = uptime(); print $uptime; 4:39pm up 20 days, 16:33, 6 users, load average: 0.41, 0.32, 0.00 Not sure it will help. A. On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 03:32 PM, Mayank Ahuja wrote

Re: perl-Tk static

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Drew
> OldGuyPerlerInTraining bows his head Python *eeew* *shudder* Java. *BIGGER EEEW* *BIGGER SHUDDER* > heads up warning for you alan - I had to go back and do > a rebuild of perl from the CPAN source since the RedHat 7.2 > default install of perl was built small. > > I need to deal with f

Re: perl-Tk static

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Drew
> Thanks once again; > sorry - the name 'tkperl' as far as I 'get it' really no longer > exists as a stand alone application - that you really will want > to chase down - assuming that you are not trying to do the > > mix and match perl/TK and Tcl/TK where you have > Tcl::Tk t

Re: How do I delete a file

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Drew
To delete files, use unlink - just as you would in the Unix terminal: e.g [mag-17 scripts]$ perl -e ' unlink "foo.bar" ' this deletes the file foo.bar. A. On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 04:43 PM, A Taylor wrote: > I have written a script that searches through a directory and finds > files t

Re: perl-Tk static

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Drew
Thanks for all the help! >> [ot@papc-mag-17 Tk800.023]# make tkperl >> make: *** No rule to make target `tkperl'. Stop. >> >> Any ideas? Thanks in advance. > > oh dear - you are chasing a phantom. > > http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/qna2.html This link does not really help the matter:

perl-Tk static

2002-05-15 Thread Alan Drew
Hi, I have a problem with perl-Tk. I downloaded Tk800.023 from cpan. I am using RH7.3. I want to build tkperl static. I untared the archive, and followed the INSTALL file as follows: - For static linking the following is how it is suppose