Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-06 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
David Leathers wrote: snip After reading some of the post just was wondering if I'm starting to learn the right language first. I am studying to be a network administrator or a job in that field. Is this the best language for me to start on? That is basically un-answerable :-). Unix,

Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-06 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Leathers wrote: snip After reading some of the post just was wondering if I'm starting to learn the right language first. I am studying to be a network administrator or a job in that field. Is this the best language for me to start on?

Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-06 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Jenda Krynicky wrote: snip I think C is prettymuch useless for normal sysadmins. There already is a Perl module for almost anything and if there is not Win32::API, FFI or something like that can most probably get you there as well. And since it takes ten times longer to do anything in C

Help with Hello world

2003-01-04 Thread David Leathers
Hi I'm using RH8.0 and trying to run my first program. Feel kind of stupid right now but I can not get this to work. In vi I did #!/usr/bin/perl printHello World; Saved file as first did chmod 755 and then ./first I get no error but Hello World does not print on the screen.

Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-04 Thread Ramprasad
oops are u sure you havent done any meddling with perl on your system try this on command line /usr/bin/perl -e 'print hello world\n' You still get no output then there is something really wrong try installing perl again David Leathers wrote: Hi I'm using RH8.0 and trying to run my first

Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-04 Thread nyec
On Saturday 04 January 2003 10:18 am, David Leathers wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl printHello World; Are you sure it's not printing with your prompt immediately after Hello World? Try putting a new line after World and it may be noticeable. print Hello World\n; nyec -- To

Re: Help with Hello world

2003-01-04 Thread David Leathers
, January 05, 2003 2:53 AM Subject: Re: Help with Hello world On Saturday 04 January 2003 10:18 am, David Leathers wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl printHello World; Are you sure it's not printing with your prompt immediately after Hello World? Try putting a new line after World and it may