Re: Perl 5.6

2001-11-13 Thread Thimal Jayasooriya
Jason, I don't see why you need to change what you do because you've moved to Perl 5.6.. most of the things that you seem to be doing will work quite well on either version... CGI.pm can be used in either an object oriented manner (as you already know, from your example), or as just pl

Re: Perl & Windows NT

2001-11-09 Thread Thimal Jayasooriya
Hi, a few alternatives you can try, (a) Why not use ActiveState ?, its binary installer works ok on Windows NT (b) Compile from source, use Visual C++ if you can, or even Cygwin (a unix emulation for windows) or any other C++ compiler The Perl source can be compiled on Windows platforms... (alt

Re: Global Variables

2001-11-02 Thread Thimal Jayasooriya
Jason, Some things you can try... (a) use a style sheet.. (.css file) and use that to set font and background color properties. This is obviously a non-Perl solution. (b) put these variables into a configuration file, and have each of your files read that configuration file.. config file would