working directories in ActivePerl

[G. Ian Bowles]

Gentlemen/Ladies,   I am very much a new person to loading PERL. I've been running scripts for a couple of years, and done the occasional load on a computer. This time, I seem to be having difficulty in interfacing the web-delivering program on my webserver (IIS?) with PERL.   I have just upgraded the copy of ActivePERL on my server. Everything works fine, except one thing: when I run scripts across the web that use the CWD module, specifically the getcwd() function, what is returned is the root directory of the webserver, rather than the directory in which the programs are located. I have not had this problem before; I've done programs in PERL on a variety of servers, and they always return the directory in which the script resides, rather than the root web directory. I can make the scripts work by putting a "chdir" command, so that it changes the working directory to the directory in which the script is located, but that means they won't be portable.   I guess the problem is that right now, it is always using the working directory at the root of the webserver. Not at the root of the drive, but at the root of the web directory. How can I change this?? I'm not sure if it's an IIS thing or a PERL thing, but it only started with loading the newest version of ActivePERL. I also tried to put back the older version, but the same thing is happening.   G. Ian Bowles PAGIS Technical Manager 100 Rock Street Little Rock, AR   72201 376-1657