That is possible. The environment was provided to us by the Unix gurus of a highly secured highly secretive financial organization, and we could only work in certain directory paths.
Thanks for the thought... Douglass N. Loud President Integrated Information Systems, Inc. 292 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001 212-714-3522 (office) 203-952-7108 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Linderman Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:26 PM To: $Bill Luebkert Cc: Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: Using canned subroutines with includes - an answer of sorts On approximately 7/8/2005 7:24 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: > Doug Loud wrote: >> >>Path to the includes script and required file: >>C:\My Documents\IISMK\Bluepoint\ESP\28 ESP\28 ESP >>System\includes\28ESP.pl >> >> >>Path to the script calling the require: >>C:\My Documents\IISMK\Bluepoint\ESP\28 ESP\28 ESP System\MainMenu.cgi > > > Well damn that explains it right there. The required script is in the > includes directory right below the executing script (and probably also > the CWD). The obvious answer was to use : > > require 'includes/28ESP.pl'; > or > require './includes/28ESP.pl'; > > Damn what a waste of time when you don't get the proper info to start with. > There's no way that script ever ran with a starting /. Well, there is one way.... on Unix, where he said it ran, there may have been a file system soft link named /includes that pointed at (approximately, but probably the paths would differ for Unix) /My Documents/IISMK/Bluepoint/ESP/28 ESP/28 ESP System/includes/ -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== Having identified a vast realm of ignorance, Wolfram is saying that much of this realm lies forever outside the light cone of human knowledge. -- Michael Swaine, Dr Dobbs Journal, Sept 2002 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
