I'm doing a "simple" form using Tk. Things are going well, but I feel a
little lazy, so for once I will ask about this.
Perl/Tk script is running on linux box "host". Users are on windows
boxes "local", running the application via an X server (Hummingbird
Exceed) and the "export DISPLAY" command.
This may be a long shot, but I am trying to get Arthur Corliss's
CursesWidgets 1.992 module to work on a SCO box. Must apologize first, I
do not understand curses, no more than the average pig understands
French.
Server OS: SCO Open Server 5 (oxymoron, but we can't call it SCO
Abandoned Server 5,
I'm working on a script to create an Excel spreadsheet programatically,
using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. I'm using a spreadsheet written by my
boss as the specification. No problems yet, but coding is tedious. I
find myself thinking, "I should write a script utilizing Parse:Excel to
dump an Excel sp
Thanks. I'll take a look at perldoc perldebguts.
Just to provide some context here: my script takes an MSDOS/Windows
(columnar)
text file and converts it to xBASE .DBF format, for reading in dBASE IV
for Unix.
I don't use any modules; basically I manipulate the text file and cat it
onto the
end o
I've been using to read an entire text file into an array.
@buffer = ;
I string-manipulate the individual array elements and then sometime
later, do a
$buffer = join "", @buffer;
...and this worked OK for a 80M text file. I couldn't resist and tried
it out on
a gigabyte monster.
The script a
