Ok I am using windows 98 se and the Perl is Perl5.8-win32-bin-0.7.exe I believe that this came from the www.perl.com site I think. I will have to check. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charlie davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:57 PM Subject: RE: starting perl
> Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please don't top-post > > Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > : > Charlie davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > : > : > : 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? > : > > : > No. This works fine when I use it in a DOS prompt > : > window. > : > : That is what I keep getting told. But for some reason it > : will not work on my dos prompt. And what I entered before > : was copied and pasted into this newsgroup that is working > : for everyone else. I must have something wrong with the > : server that I am trying to us. I don't know what else it > : could be. > : > : When I installed the perl program it also installed the > : Apache program > > The server shouldn't matter. Are you using some flavor > of Windows? The example was for Windows. > > Apache is not installed in the ActiveState Perl for > Windows install. I assume you are using some other > installation or that you are not on Windows. Can you > confirm your operating system and where your install came > from? Also, where is the perl executable located? > > > HTH, > > Charles K. Clarkson > -- > Mobile Homes Specialist > 254 968-8328 > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
