drieux, i've been monitoring this list and couldn't help but notice the volume of your posts. i have to ask: do you ever sleep?
:) james ----- Original Message ----- From: "drieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 03, 2002 08:45 Subject: Re: developing and testing first CGI/Perl application > > On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 06:22 , Maureen E Fischer wrote: > > > I am about to write my first CGI/Perl application. I have read Learning > > Perl and I now am reading the Castro Perl and CGI book and the O'Reilly > > CGI book. I was going to write and test my work using IIS on Windows > > because it seemed easy for me to get started that way, but I have access > > to a Sun machine that runs UNIX. Since the system will ultimately run > > on Hostway.com (our ISP provider) using an Apache web server on Linux, > > would it be better to just forget about the IIS and develop it right > > away using UNIX or will the differences be minor (between the windows > > application and the ultimate Unix application) and easy to correct. Any > > advice will be appreciated. Maureen > > as you may have noticed a lot of people get bollock'd by the > dos2unix and unix2dos 'end of line' problem. > > but as we also noticed if you start with > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > > you can actually skate around that.... > > Given that you have access to a unix box - in the dark the big > delta's between solaris and linux are not that interesting in > the actual perl coding space - so I would argue - avoid the > IIS/windows problems - and go over to the *nix box and just > get on with perlMongering. > > What you will also find is that you can run your > > myNewCgi.cgi > > from the command line and debug it...... once it stops > complaining at you - then hang it up in a 'safe place' > and call it out from your webPages.... > > > > ciao > drieux > > --- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
