I do not know if this is a contributing issue but the 'Path' statement on my W2K box does not include the trailing '\' as you show in your example.
In other words my path looks like this: "path=c:\perl\bin;c:\winnt;" There are no trailing '\' back slashes after any of the path parameters. Does this make a difference? I don't know but you might want to check it out. Tom Gibb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:50 PM To: Sisyphus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPM3 breaks with "Error: connect: unknown error" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:31 AM Subject: Re: PPM3 breaks with "Error: connect: unknown error" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gueven Bay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > When I want to start PPM3 then I have to type in "ppm3-bin". > > *Maybe this the point of failure?* > > When I type in "ppm3" then I get the error "File not found". > > But the $PATH is set to the right directory. > > > > I don't think there's any problem with your path. If *that* were the problem > you would expect an "unknown command" error - not a "file not found". > Does it tell you the name of the file that is not found - or where it > looked for the file ? No, DOS doesn't tell me the name of the file that is not found.Nor where it looked for the file. Only the error message "Command or File not found" (this is the word for word translation from the German error message). My Perl is installed under "E:\perl\" and my $PATH points to "E:\perl\bin\".And there are ppm3.bat, ppm3-bin.bat, ppm3, ppm3-bin.cfg and so on. > > So when I start PPM3 (with "ppm3-bin") and type "query *" or "query DBI" > or > > something then PPM3 quits after the error message "Error: connect: unknown > > error". > > > > I tried to call PPM3 from the Dos-Promt directly without going to the > > interactive mode. The same error message. "Error: connect: unknown error". > > and PPM3 quits. > > > > So you enter 'ppm3-bin' at the command prompt, and that gets you into the > interactive ppm shell.What does your ppm3 prompt look like ? > Is it: > PPM3> > or > PPM3-BIN> > > That's very weird, but then I don't know much about ppm3. When I type in "ppm3-bin" I get the prompt ppm> But I get the message that PPM3 has started: (PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1. Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved. Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library. Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manually, your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' for more information. Type 'help' to get started.) > > > When I try the other commands for example "upgrade" (with or without > > parameters) then > > I get same error message. "Error: connect: unknown error". and PPM3 quits. > > > > Then I downloaded Zip's and extraceted them to a local directory and > changed > > the current working directory in my dos-window to the local package dir > and > > called PPM3. > > Guess what? Right! The same error message. > > > > Hmm .... I think you should try re-installing perl. It's starting to sound > like something was misplaced during installation - which can happen. (I > think they give you the size of the download, so you can check that you > received everything that you should have received.) I re-installed perl already. But this doesn't made it better. > If you still get the same error then I think we need to find out the name of > the file that is "not found". Do you have any further information to help us > with that ? > Which file do you mean? I'm getting frustrated :-((( Thank you! _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
