Re: Starting perl script @ boot up

2008-06-12 Thread Jeff Peng
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Rajnikant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to start one perl script at system boot up time. I'm using HP UX > 11 and I did standard procedure to start process at start up > (http://strc.comet.ucar.edu/unix/textfiles/startboot.htm standard process)

Re: starting perl

2004-05-06 Thread Charlie davis
les K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:41 PM Subject: RE: starting perl > Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please stop t

RE: starting perl

2004-05-06 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please stop top-posting. : From: "Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : > : > The server shouldn't matter. Are you using some flavor : > of Windows? The example was for Windows. : > : > Apache is not installed in the ActiveState Perl for :

Re: starting perl

2004-05-06 Thread Charlie davis
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:57 PM Subject: RE: starting perl > Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please don't top-post > > Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > : > Charlie davis <[EMA

RE: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please don't top-post Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : : > : What I was going by is a line of code in a book called : > : teacher yourself perl in 24 days. and all the book : > : said was to type in t

Re: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Charlie davis
ld be. When I installed the perl program it also installed the Apache program - Original Message - From: "Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004

RE: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : What I was going by is a line of code in a book called : teacher yourself perl in 24 days. and all the book : said was to type in that line of code : c:\perl\bin\perl -w -e "print \"Hello, World!\n\";" : just like that into the command line. Is this wro

Re: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Charlie davis
quot; just like that into the command line. Is this wrong? - Original Message - From: "Ned Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:38 AM Subject: RE: starting perl

RE: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Ned Cunningham
You have started a new thread? You should click reply all, and continue on with the same email in the future. I'm not sure if you are responding to whom? :-) Also, if one of the "Guru's" reads the second starting of the thread, he/she will not know what you are asking. The starting point of y

RE: starting perl

2004-05-05 Thread Ned Cunningham
It works Type in path at the prompt Look in it and make sure c:\perl\bin\ is in it ? If it isn't go to my computer and environment and add it. HTH Ned Cunningham POS Systems Development Monro Muffler Brake 200 Holleder Parkway Rochester, NY 14615 (585) 647-6400 ext. 310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "T

RE: starting perl

2004-05-03 Thread McMahon, Chris
I am a beginner here with learning perl. I have downloaded a perl program that also came with apache and the installer to install t hem. But when I try and run the hello world program in dos it dose not work. I am getting an error that it could not be found. anyone have any idea what I could ha

Re: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread John W . Krahn
On Sunday 02 May 2004 19:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just some background on my list...Those modules listed on my > signature To be a valid signature it must begin with the string "-- \n" so technically there is no signature in your postings. :-) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -

Re: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread WilliamGunther
>Hi William and all, Hi > >> Most Useful Perl Modules >> -strict >> -warnings >why is it everyone keeps suggesting use warnings when you could use >diagnostics and get a whole lot of more info? >I'd go for the diagnostics instead of the warnings module. Does this >have any negative side effects

Re: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread Jeff Westman
You need to add perl to your %PATH% or give it an explicite path name such as c:\> \perl\bin\perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" JW Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of >perl is perl 5.8 But w

RE: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Stephan Hochhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : why is it everyone keeps suggesting use warnings when you : could use diagnostics and get a whole lot of more info? : I'd go for the diagnostics instead of the warnings module. : Does this have any negative side effects (besides working : towards the

Re: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread Stephan Hochhaus
Hi William and all, Most Useful Perl Modules -strict -warnings why is it everyone keeps suggesting use warnings when you could use diagnostics and get a whole lot of more info? I'd go for the diagnostics instead of the warnings module. Does this have any negative side effects (besides working to

Re: starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread WilliamGunther
In a message dated 5/2/2004 9:08:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I am a beginner here with learning perl. I have downloaded a perl program that also came >with apache and the installer to install t hem. But when I try and run the hello world >program in dos it dose not

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "R" == R Joseph Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> I totally forgot, by the time I got to addressing .pm, that R> extensions in any context could be other than Evil in Randal's R> universe. See, I never ever said that. Odd how I would get misheard on this point. Extensions for *comma

GUI v. CLI was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread drieux
On Sunday, Nov 16, 2003, at 13:19 US/Pacific, R. Joseph Newton wrote: Rob Dixon wrote: Joseph wrote: I don't mind it for source files, but having to type "foo.pl" to run the "foo" command strikes me as excessive user hostility. ..and so does double-clicking on the script icon? Which, to be fair, do

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"R. Joseph Newton" wrote: > "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > > Rob> Perl modules are in *.pm. > > > Yes, this is enforced by Perl. > > ... Perl does use the extension > system for identifying modules under Windows. It looks specifically for files > with the .pm extension. > > I just checked. ..

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Rob Dixon wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > > > > I don't mind it for source files, but having to type "foo.pl" to run > > > the "foo" command strikes me as excessive user hostility. > > > > ..and so does double-clicking on the script icon? > > Which, to be fair, doesn't allow any command-line parameters

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread drieux
On Saturday, Nov 15, 2003, at 23:38 US/Pacific, R. Joseph Newton wrote: [..] The most recent comment seems to be about the organizational process involved with keeping files sorted by category. It is a fairly straightforward issue. It seemed a very cogent point. Nothing in the origin of the thre

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread Rob Dixon
Joseph wrote: > > > I don't mind it for source files, but having to type "foo.pl" to run > > the "foo" command strikes me as excessive user hostility. > > ..and so does double-clicking on the script icon? Which, to be fair, doesn't allow any command-line parameters apart from those that you though

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > I don't mind it for source files, but having to type "foo.pl" to run > the "foo" command strikes me as excessive user hostility. ..and so does double-clicking on the script icon? Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
drieux wrote: > > Which Organizational Process > The one here on Earth, specifically the one a beginner to Perl, and probably also to programming, faces in taking his first steps to learning the language. This was the subject of the original post, from a user who stated that he opera

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > "Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. > > No. Only on broken architectures that demand it (read: "windows"). Oh? Greetings! E:\d_drive\ocf\discuss\prototype>perl mailparse

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Bob" == Bob X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> So, by your comment, I can take it to mean that the book can now Bob> cover both *nix and Windows and that you have either told the Bob> Windows people to use .pl or .plx correct? Yes, I seem to recall that is what we did. We spent a lot of w

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread Bob X
"Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Chris" == McMahon, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> You *are* the one who wrote "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems", yes? > > I wrote the "Learning Perl" parts yes. Eric Olsen (I'm probably > manglin

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 08:06 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: [..] Luckily, with the modern Learning Perl book, there's no need for a separate version. O'Reilly continues to sell it though, simply because it's selling. :) We've come a long way from that first series of books. [..] For t

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-14 Thread Rob Dixon
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > "Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. > > No. Only on broken architectures that demand it (read: "windows"). > On Unix, Perl programs have no extension, any more than "cat" has an > extension. Why

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chris" == McMahon, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> You *are* the one who wrote "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems", yes? I wrote the "Learning Perl" parts yes. Eric Olsen (I'm probably mangling the spelling of his name) wrote the Win32 parts though. I didn't even know the book was

RE: Starting Perl

2003-11-14 Thread McMahon, Chris
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Starting Perl >>>>> "Chris" == Chris McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I name my Perl scripts on my FreeBSD box "

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chris" == Chris McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I name my Perl scripts on my FreeBSD box "something.pl" Chris> because I'm the first (and so far only, but not for long) user Chris> of a Unix-y system in an all-Windows shop, and I don't want my Chris> colleagues to be confused.

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chuk" == Chuk Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chuk> Sort of both, but more of the former. Basically, if I've got a Chuk> directory sitting there with three or four different types of Chuk> files in it, I'd like to know which ones are perl (and I can Chuk> just open them up in vi and fix

Re: Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 12:29 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] While that would indeed be the Best Practice, as a beginner just learning, one of the things I like about perl are the differences from other (usually compiled) languages that I'm used to. [..] Chuk, et al, a part of the rea

Re: Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:33:14AM -0800, drieux wrote: > So let us step back and look at the 'root cause problem' > > so I want to just 'fix it on the fly' > > and yes, foo.pl as an editable text file will allow you > simply open it with a text editor and WHACK a fix in. Unlike > RealCode[

Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 10:34 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] Basically, if I've got a directory sitting there with three or four different types of files in it, I'd like to know which ones are perl (and I can just open them up in vi and fix them) and which ones aren't (and I'll have to

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
> >What kind of naming structure would you suggest for people who just > >want > >to use extensions for organizational purposes? > > when you say for 'organizational purposes' do you > mean in terms of tracking the 'source code' in a > source code control system? Or do you mean tracking > named a

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 09:32 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] What kind of naming structure would you suggest for people who just want to use extensions for organizational purposes? [..] when you say for 'organizational purposes' do you mean in terms of tracking the 'source code' in a

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:55:24PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. > > No. Only on broken architectures that demand it (read: "windows"). > On Unix, Perl programs have no extension, any more than "cat" has an > extension. Why should the user

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 07:49 US/Pacific, McMahon, Chris wrote: [..] I name my Perl scripts on my FreeBSD box "something.pl" because I'm the first (and so far only, but not for long) user of a Unix-y system in an all-Windows shop, and I don't want my colleagues to be confused. Quizzic

RE: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread McMahon, Chris
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Starting Perl >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. No. Only on broken architectures that demand it (read: "windows"). On Unix, Perl programs have no extension, any more than "cat" has an extension. Why should the user care what the implement

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Dan Anderson wrote: > > Perl code takes the form of a text file. If you're under windows you'll > name your perl files with the .pm extension. Hi Dan. Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. Perl modules are in *.pm. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Anderson
> i'd like to say first that i'm using activePerl , > under windows. > for O'Reilly, i couldn't subscribe or even have the 14 > days trial because i don't have a credit card.. :( > I have a question, because really i couldn't help > myself... You're probably either going to need to pick up a book

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-11 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 04:08 US/Pacific, yomna el-tawil wrote: [..] But I've got some problems, i'd like to say first that i'm using activePerl , under windows. remember everyone started some place. for O'Reilly, i couldn't subscribe or even have the 14 days trial because i don't have a cred

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:25:03PM -, Rob Dixon wrote: > Yomna el-Tawil wrote: >> >> for O'Reilly, i couldn't subscribe or even have the 14 >> days trial because i don't have a credit card.. :( > > I'm not sure what you mean here. O'Reilly is a book publisher > who publishes, amongst other thi

RE: Starting Perl

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Bätzler
yomna el-tawil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > i'd like to say first that i'm using activePerl , > under windows. If you've installed that properly, you're set. > for O'Reilly, i couldn't subscribe or even have the 14 > days trial because i don't have a credit card.. :( > I have a question, b

RE: Starting Perl

2003-11-11 Thread Paul Kraus
Notepad, emacs, vi, word with save as text only, anywhere you can write text. That is saved as text with no special formatting. -Original Message- From: yomna el-tawil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:09 AM To: Beginners Perl Subject: Starting Perl Thank you

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-11 Thread Rob Dixon
Yomna el-Tawil wrote: > > Thank you all for ur answeres... > > But I've got some problems, i'd like to say first that i'm > using activePerl, under windows. > > for O'Reilly, i couldn't subscribe or even have the 14 > days trial because i don't have a credit card.. :( I'm not sure what you mean he