Panic when decrypting

2009-10-14 Thread Fisher, John
I have written a Perl script which I have used for years to decrypt at the field level in a file. Occasionally I get a problem file. It throws out this message like this and stops - "panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at encrypt_ssn_2_live_STDIN_or_INFILE.pl line 108, line 1249.

RE: working with CPAN

2009-02-02 Thread Fisher, John
2009 11:22 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: working with CPAN Fisher, John wrote: > I have luck sometimes with CPAN and sometimes I don't. It like spinning a > wheel. I am trying to bring down a module that will read EBCDIC files and > convert them to ASCII. I need one that will hand

working with CPAN

2009-01-31 Thread Fisher, John
I have luck sometimes with CPAN and sometimes I don't. It like spinning a wheel. I am trying to bring down a module that will read EBCDIC files and convert them to ASCII. I need one that will handle packed fields as well. Not sure this one is it. Anyway if you have help on that please let me kno

RE: uncompress winzip file using perl

2008-12-18 Thread Fisher, John
Well, it is coming from an Windows environment but I am doing my work on a Linux box. I see 7z has a Linux port, so will try that. Thanks for all your help. John snip >From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] >It sounds like you are on a Win32 machine. If so, download 7->zip* and >insta

RE: uncompress winzip file using perl

2008-12-18 Thread Fisher, John
should test the zipped file and if it requires a password spawn off a process to do some winzip command line process? "Puppet String"? Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:18 PM To: Fishe

RE: uncompress winzip file using perl

2008-12-17 Thread Fisher, John
That is exactly it. So you are saying that I cannot use this module because it doesn't take in a password. Is there a module that I could use instead? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:02 PM To: Fisher,

uncompress winzip file using perl

2008-12-16 Thread Fisher, John
I used winzip 12.0 to zip a file and used the code below to successfully unzip it. === #!/usr/bin/perl -w use IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate qw(anyinflate $AnyInflateError) ; @ARGV == 2 or die "Usage: $0 \n"; my $input=$ARGV[0]; my $output=$ARGV[1]; if ( -f $input ) { } else { print "Input fi