On Thursday 08 July 2004 HH:18:19, JupiterHost.Net wrote: > Marco wrote:
Hi Marco, > > and on DOS prompt when I say, perl simple.pl > > it says: > > 'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external > > command, > > > > what am I missing? an execution path or something? > > Not sure, you may need to ask ann Active Staelist if noone else knows. > > I'm not really a Windows guy so my knowlefge is limited :) > I'm not sure if I got the full thread of your question, but the error message you posted above normally indicates that "perl" is not part of your "path" environment variable. you can try this by calling perl using it's full path: C:\Path\to\your\perl\scripts> C:\Z_Perl_584\Perl\bin\perl simple.pl If this works, you might want to include the path to perl into your path variable - you can do this for one process with a command like SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Z_PERL_584\Perl\bin or generally in the Settings (I believe it's in Settings | Control Panel | Advanced | Environment Variables, but I'm not sure). If you change it permanently, reboot Windows, because otherwise the changed environment variable won't be available to all processes. HTH, Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
