Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-22 Thread Aaron Craig
At 09:55 22.06.2001 +0100, james crease wrote: >I still think it odd that the distribution of Perl for Windows doesn't >mention this problem when using the standard M$ command window. The problem disappears with Win2000, fwiw. Aaron Craig Programming iSoftitler.com

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-22 Thread Jos Boumans
it's not a perl problem, it's an m$ 'feature' (mainly found under NT lacking some service packs/upgradss) for example, on win98 i never had that problem, neither do i have it on win2k or on my fully sp'd and upgraded winnt4 box however on a few nt boxes having NOT had all service packs, i'm stuck

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-22 Thread james crease
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >At 21:49 20.06.2001 +0100, james crease wrote: >>I have a perl script which generates many compilation errors which >>scroll off the DOS window perl is running in. How do I capture (or >>recover) the lines that have scrolle

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread Aaron Craig
At 21:49 20.06.2001 +0100, james crease wrote: >I have a perl script which generates many compilation errors which scroll >off the DOS window perl is running in. How do I capture (or recover) the >lines that have scrolled away? >-- >james crease > Use EditPlus2 as your editor. You can capture

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread james crease
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Musson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hey james, > >Thursday, June 21, 2001, 9:26:34 AM, you wrote: > >jc> The version of DOS I have on win98SE doesn't allow for a scroll >jc> bar as suggested by one comment nor does it have a layout tab to >jc> set the size of

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, james crease wrote: > Thanks to all for suggestions. > Comments- I suspect Chas above has the likely solution. > The version of DOS I have on win98SE doesn't allow for a scroll bar as > suggested by one comment nor does it have a layout tab to set the size > of the window alt

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread james crease
In message <993124108.25145.2.camel@cowens>, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >The problem is that the error messages are going to stderr instead of >stdout. The standard DOS shell (command.com or cmd.exe depending on >your system) doesn't understand how to capture stderr. The solution is

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread Chas Owens
The problem is that the error messages are going to stderr instead of stdout. The standard DOS shell (command.com or cmd.exe depending on your system) doesn't understand how to capture stderr. The solution is to get a better shell. Cygnus (now RedHat) makes cygwin a complete unix style developm

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread james crease
likely to help as most of the errors are consequential on the original "real " error, but thanks for the thought. > > >-Original Message- >From: james crease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 21 June 2001 09:26 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: compilati

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-21 Thread james crease
Thanks I had tried that already and doesn't seem to work at compile time:-( In message <00e401c0f9cc$02ee7340$0901a8c0@profit>, Jos I. Boumans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >try capturing the output: > >perl foo.pl > outputfile.txt > >all that perl spits out should be in the outputfile.txt then >

Re: compilation errors in win98

2001-06-20 Thread Jos I. Boumans
try capturing the output: perl foo.pl > outputfile.txt all that perl spits out should be in the outputfile.txt then regards, Jos Boumans - Original Message - From: "james crease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:49 PM Subject: compilation