Quoting Jamie Blondin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> As for differences - there are a few. The work of ActivePerl
> (www.activeperl.com) has not been without fruition, however, and they've
> managed to create a usable (barely) port of Perl and several common
> packages. Be warned, though, you may find several pieces of Perl code
> you've discovered on the web somewhere that you want to use that will
> take some major re-writes to get working. Specifically, differences in
> fork() calls and opening to pipe streams drive me up the wall.
Ahh, fork and alerts.. I nearly forgot.. Yes, BIG differences there..
> Which reminds me...anyone here have experience in talking to MS SQL Server
> 6.5 from a Linux box with Perl? (Without having to install some kind of
> extra server application on a Windows box to get it to work) I haven't been
> able to figure it out yet...Thanks
I've managed to get it to work using the ODBC DBD drivers.. Create an ODBC
data source for your SQL Server, and use that DSN with the ODBC driver..
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Thomas Charron
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