Re: Perl Codes Written in Windows Env

[Chuck Fox]

The big problem is line endings.  On WinBlows you need carriage return 
and line feed (ascii 13 and 10, respectively).  However on (*nix) lines 
are terminated by line feed.  By transferring in binary mode, you will 
see ^M at the end of line (remember ascii 13 ?).  This alone should not 
cause any issues with running Perl scripts, I have done this many 
times.  BTW, there is a nifty little program called dos2unix (not sure 
if this is standard for all (*nix)), that removes extraneous carriage 
returns from files.

Chuck Fox

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have a perl script that I developped in a windows machine 
and it had to be 
transfered by ftp to a UNIX server. The codes worked fine 
when I tested them on 
my windows machine. Is it true that the data could get 
corrupted while being 
ftp'ed from Windows to Unix. I was told by the Unix people 
   

If you ftp them in binary mode instead of ascii mode yes that will screw it up.

 

that they couldn't 
get the code to work at first because the codes were 
developped in windows 
   

What do you mean by "didn't work". They failed completely, output not as expected, 
...
What modules did you use? Are those installed on the unix host?
What errors are you getting? To the screen or a log of some kind?
 

environment. Codes are working now though. Just being curious.