charmie maniar wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I installed Mason and used the cpan.pm <http://cpan.pm> module to 
> automate the process to get the required perl modules.
> I copied a program from the book named it "handshake.pl 
> <http://handshake.pl>". Its from the Mason book (O' Reilly 
> publications). But I am getting the following errors, please help:
>  
> C:\Perl\bin\perl>handshake.pl <http://handshake.pl>
> Backslash found where operator expected at C:\Perl\bin\perl\handshake.pl 
> <http://handshake.pl> line 1, near "rtf1\"
> Backslash found where operator expected at C:\Perl\bin\perl\handshake.pl 
> <http://handshake.pl> line 1near "ansi\"
> Backslash found where operator expected at C:\Perl\bin\perl\handshake.pl 
> <http://handshake.pl> line 1, near "ansicpg1252\"

Seems "handshake.pl" is a Rich Text Format file, not plain text.

Try to open it using Notepad - probably you will not see a perl-text.

Use Wordpad\Write\Word to save it as "ANSI text".

-- 
Best regards,
Andrew A. Kopeyko <k...@zvuki.ru>
http://www.zvuki.ru/

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