RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread Richard KHOO Guan Chen
Er What is this DCOM? I thought I did not see any mention of this in the ActiveState site. I just downloaded (last night, in fact) and installed the Windows Installer from the ActiveState site and then successfully installed ActivePerl 5.6.1 on my Windows98 Lite (Windows 98 with 95 interf

webmail systems

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Harrison
I am using squirrelmail to access mail for my hosting site and i want to be able to offer free hotmail-style email service. I know that to allow users to fill in a form and add them a system account is dangerous cos the script (and webserver) would have to run as root. so i thought i would have

Text to PDF via Perl

2002-03-18 Thread Fred Sahakian
Hi folks, Ive heard of Perl CGI's that can take inputed data through a webform, put the data into a PDF in the right fields and mail it out, has anyone heard of this? thanks...Fred

Re: Using CGI.pm

2002-03-18 Thread Mark Bergeron
Well, If your using CGI.pm you have the power and flexibility of using the object parameters like "q->" it's really a great short hand for coding pages esspecially for headers and footes and tables and style sheets and the like. Of course you can blend CGI.pm formatted code with HTML here docum

Votrax text-to-speech synthesizer

2002-03-18 Thread John
I have an old Votrax "Type ‘N Talk" text-to-speech synthesizer, circa 1982. It connects to a serial port and will accept text strings changing them to speech. I want to experiment with the unit by connecting it to a serial port on my Linux server and send text strings to it via a web page fronting

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread John Edwards
>From the requirements for ActivePerl 5.6 Windows 98 Microsoft Windows Installer 1.1+ (available from http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/wininst/1.1/W9X/EN-US/Ins tMsi.exe) Internet Explorer 5+ (available from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) DCOM for Windows 98 (available f

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--come on guys! *lol* --let me start from the beginning: sometime ago, i asked for, and got, perl training. it was cool. i got a better understanding of what was going on, methods, practical application, etc ... --the training was ON RedHat 7.2, perl version 5.6.1. so it's NOT that i WANT

Re: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread fliptop
Johnson, Shaunn wrote: > --have explorer 5 ... but i have no idea > what DCOM is ... i'll have to look > into whatever that is ... > > --aren't there any alternatives? do you have an old 486 that you're not using? an alternative is to convert it to a linux box, run all your server software (

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread John Edwards
Sure. They're called Windows 2000 and Linux I wouldn't touch Win98 with a bargepole. Especially for developing on. As soon as you get a perl script that goes rouge and starts eating memory it will be much harder to kill off in Win98 than a proper OS. You could always install the 5.22 version

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--have explorer 5 ... but i have no idea what DCOM is ... i'll have to look into whatever that is ... --aren't there any alternatives? -X -Original Message- From: yahoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, a quick look on the ActiveState site seems to indicate that DCOM for win98 and atleas

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread yahoo
Hi, a quick look on the ActiveState site seems to indicate that DCOM for win98 and atleast IE 5 are required. Have you got these? regards Joel -Original Message- From: Johnson, Shaunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 March 2002 15:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subjec

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--howdy: --i did download and install the, er, installer 2.0 for windows '98 (it's called InstMsiA). --it installs and reboots the system, but when i try to install ActivePerl 5.6.1 behind that, i get a messages that says something like, 'Can't install'. --i'm sorry i don't have the exact error

RE: Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread yahoo
hi, I think its trying to use the microsoft installer which will need installing on win98 look at the Windows 98 bit and you see what you need to install first http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ASPNPerl joel -Original Message- From: Johnson, Shaunn [mailto:[EMAI

RE: dbi module for ActivePerl

2002-03-18 Thread yahoo
Hytham, what happens when you type PPM INSTALL DBD-Mysql joel -Original Message- From: Hytham Shehab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 March 2002 14:52 To: yahoo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dbi module for ActivePerl hi guys, when i list the available drivers when useing perl

Re: dbi module for ActivePerl

2002-03-18 Thread Hytham Shehab
hi guys, when i list the available drivers when useing perl from perl.com, it gives me the whole drivers as well as mysql, but when i use the activeperl version, it list the whole but mysql, i search about the dbd of mysql in activeperl repository, i wasn't lucky, how can i go along with activ

Perl for Windows 98

2002-03-18 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: Where can I get Perl 5.6.x for Windows '98? I did try ActivePerl, but am still having problems with the installs (there is a package to install called 'InstMsia.exe' that is supposed to help, but doesn't). However, the ActivePerl 5.6.1 DOES work for my NT servers. TIA! -X

Re: Using CGI.pm

2002-03-18 Thread zentara
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:11:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Octavian Rasnita) wrote: >I have a question about using CGI.pm. > >How it is better? To print directly the html code with >print " ... "; etc. or > >to print using the CGI.pm >print $q-> start_html(...); etc. >Does it work faster in a w

Re: Adding the input file digits together (Come on guys)

2002-03-18 Thread zentara
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 19:17:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Ambraal) wrote: >I am want to add digits in In_digits together. >Print total to screen. >Could someone help? >In_digits: >1,200 >2,400 > >#!/usr/bin/perl -w >open(INPUT, "In_digits") || die; >open(OUTPUT, ">Out_digits") || die; >while

RE: dbi module for ActivePerl

2002-03-18 Thread yahoo
Hi Hytham, Are you saying that you have already got Perl installed and talking to MySQL using Perl obtained from Perl.com rather than the ActiveState perl? If so, what happens when you list available drivers using your Perl.com Perl version? You must be seeing MySQL no? I have to be honest, on

RE: dbi module for ActivePerl

2002-03-18 Thread yahoo
Hi Octavian, are you having an error talking to MySQL on Win32 with ActiveStates Perl as well as Hytham? Have you successfully installed packages before using PPM? I'm trying to rule out a PPM specific issue here rather than a DBI issues - it certainly looks as if there is a basic installation is