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Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:30:04 PST8PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Any PERL...

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> Peter Skye
> PS>
> PS> -- Is this the Hobbes "PERL" posted Jan99?

Dallas Legan wrote:
>
> No. It's the zip file I got off the Sept. 1997
> Hobbes CD-ROM (Walnut Creek). The file is dated
> 12-14-96. Maybe I need to get the more recent file?

The most recent PERL for OS/2 I've found is the one I mentioned in the
earlier post. Can't hurt to download it. :)

ftp://ftp.ou.edu/mirrors/CPAN/ports/os2/

(ou.edu is the University of Oklahoma.)

> PS> I downloaded it yesterday and unzipped it, but
> PS> the documentation files weren't quickly obvious
> PS> so I didn't go further.
>
> Should be the Plain Old Documentation (.pod) files. :-)

They're not _quite_ "plain" :) -- what's the program that's supposed to
read them (and interpret all those embedded formatting controls)?

> PS> -- Is this a port? (The docs may not have been
> PS> fully "ported".) If so, is it running on EMX?
>
> Yeah, it is an EMX executable.
> Maybe I need more recent versions of stuff from
> EMXRT.ZIP. A quick check of my dll/ directory shows
> most of the emx looking stuff being 9 or 11 of 96,
> so it is probably easy to update.

The most recent emx is 0.9d dated December 1998. Get it at:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/emxrt.zip

Just unzip it into your c:\emx\ directory.

> ... seemed to imply that porting stuff to OS/2 is
> pretty routine in many instances.

> PS> ... did you try changing all "/" to "\" to see
> PS> what would happen?
>
> Yes. It just changes the first two slashes in the
> path in the error message to back slashes.

Hopefully the error will go away after you get the latest releases of
emx and perl.

Your error message included SYS0003:

[G:\]help sys0003
SYS0003: The system cannot find the path specified.
EXPLANATION: The path named in the command does not
exist for the drive specified or the path was
entered incorrectly.

The SYS0003 was generated by OS/2, not by emx. Somehow OS/2 is getting
those forward slashes. Try the newer emx; perhaps this was one of the
bugs they fixed.

-----

> The Santa Monica Perl Users Group had their first
> meeting Thurs. at American International Univ. in
> the Playa del Rey area. Adam Pisoni, his brother,
> and some other people from Cybernation seem to be
> the main movers behind it. They seem to be very
> oriented toward bleeding edge Web/multimedia
> applications.

Why do they like it, as a language? What can it do that they don't find
in other languages?

- Peter Skye

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