Re: Passing options to command in a system call

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Lewis
I haven't used the wget program before, but try adding a comma after your -O. I did that and I got it working. Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi, I try to call wget using system like this: system("wget -O /dev/null", "http://janeden.org/test/file.txt";); This does not work: Can't exec "w

RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.

2004-10-01 Thread Doug Lewis
I won't even reply to the person that said, perl is old news. And that everyone talks about Python. That is just stupid. Most people either talk about C, C++, or Java. Then comes perl. Perl is still way more talked about than Python In my Experience. Perl makes things much simpler. "NYI

Re: Two easy questions.

2004-09-21 Thread Doug Lewis
Your answer actually lies in the system that you are using first. The reason the CGI scripts hold the .cgi extension. Is because that is what your webserver uses to grab your CGI scripts from your CGI directory. As for using perl myscript. That is a windows thing. If I remember correctly