OK Thanks! Yes I did and the c:\perl\bin\ in the path. But correct me if I am wrong. What I was going by is a line of code in a book called teacher yourself perl in 24 days. and all the book said was to type in that line of code c:\perl\bin\perl -w -e "print \"Hello, World!\n\";" just like that into the command line. Is this wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ned Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charlie davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:38 AM Subject: RE: starting perl
You have started a new thread? You should click reply all, and continue on with the same email in the future. I'm not sure if you are responding to whom? :-) Also, if one of the "Guru's" reads the second starting of the thread, he/she will not know what you are asking. The starting point of your DOS prompt does not matter. The reason it does not matter is because you have the directory for the executables in your path. That is of course if you indeed do have it in it, which was my original question to you? Once you create a Perl script and save it, then you will need to change directory to it to run your script. Did you type in path and verify that c:\perl\bin\ is in the path? Ned Cunningham POS Systems Development Monro Muffler Brake 200 Holleder Parkway Rochester, NY 14615 (585) 647-6400 ext. 310 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -----Original Message----- From: Charlie davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: starting perl Ok when I start the dos prompt I get this C:\WINDOWS\Desktop> I take it that is not what it should be? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
