Accessing an oracle database with a DBI

2001-08-28 Thread Julian M Sawkins
Is there a way that doesn't involve installing the oracle client? Can I use ODBC? If so, can anyone give me pointers as to where to find the drivers? The reason I'm avoiding the client is because I have no cdrom in the machine, and no X installed (Redhat is so big these days I had no room for it

Reading magnetic stripe data with perl

2001-08-14 Thread Julian M Sawkins
Hi, I'm _very_ new to Perl and was wondering if anyone can help me read a com port? I intend to set up a linux machine to boot straight into a perl program which checks details from a card reader via the com port and compares them with details in a database, probably via a DBI. The intention is t