Sounds to me like your OS doesn't know where the perl executable is. Try
running with c:\perl\bin\perl instead of just perl.
-tommy
Charlie davis 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 when I type what it says in the boo
> from a casual glance, i'd say the 1st escaping backslash should not have a
> space after it (you want to escape the double quote, not the space).
>
try this instead. a little easier to read, and less error prone.
c:\> perl -w -e "print qq( Hello, World!\n ); "
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On Sun, 2 May 2004 at 15:00, Charlie davis opined:
Cd:But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error
Cd:messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename what I
Cd:am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" And then I
Cd:get the error message.
Cd:
C
>From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of
>perl is perl 5.8
But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error messagethat states that
I have entered a bad command or filename
what I am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\
