Re: Using VMS Perl to access a Microsoft Access database

2003-01-09 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 3:43 PM -0800 1/9/03, Mark Berryman wrote: >WARNING: Perl novice on board... > >I suddenly find myself in the need of being able to access a Microsoft >Access database from my VMS system. I figure Perl might be a good way >to do this. However, I seem to be lost in the morass of verbage that >t

RE: Using VMS Perl to access a Microsoft Access database

2003-01-09 Thread BobV
The only ODBC driver I know of for VMS is CONNX, at www.connx.com. It started out as a way to use ODBC to connect to RMS files, treating each file as a table. You may be able to use it to connect back from VMS to a PC. Anyone know whether it's been used with Perl? --Bob van Keuren AMS San Diego

Using VMS Perl to access a Microsoft Access database

2003-01-09 Thread Mark Berryman
WARNING: Perl novice on board... I suddenly find myself in the need of being able to access a Microsoft Access database from my VMS system. I figure Perl might be a good way to do this. However, I seem to be lost in the morass of verbage that talks about accessing a database via Perl so I'm turn

Re: [PATCH] VMS perly build tweak

2003-01-09 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Craig A. Berry wrote: > Peter Prymmer recently caught a bug I introduced in #18277 that would > have caused us problems the next time the VMS-specific versions of > perly.h and perly.c are generated. The patch here gets things back > the way they should be. > > --- vms/descrip_mms.template;-2 Wed

[PATCH] VMS perly build tweak

2003-01-09 Thread Craig A. Berry
Peter Prymmer recently caught a bug I introduced in #18277 that would have caused us problems the next time the VMS-specific versions of perly.h and perly.c are generated. The patch here gets things back the way they should be. --- vms/descrip_mms.template;-2 Wed Jan 1 17:05:26 2003 +++ vms/desc

5.8.0 status on VMS (was RE: Tru64 Perl ...)

2003-01-09 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 1:51 PM + 1/8/03, David Webb wrote: Tom Wyant wrote: > > Any chance of an easy-to-install package for 5.8.0, similar to the 5.6.1 > > package at http://www.sidhe.org/perlbuild.zip? (Hope! Hope!) It's on the to-do list. I may wait for 5.8.1 for various reasons. >Anybody actually got 5.8