[WEB4LIB] Re: UNIX to NT -- Ack! My PERL scripts!

[Chris Gray]

You'll find that you're scripts themselves will port nicely to the
ActivePerl Win32 version; what won't port are any calls to all those
useful UNIX utilities.  With me it was sendmail for which I had to find a
Win32 substitute (blat), although a better solution might be Perl modules
for an email interface.

The other difficulty I've run into is the mysteries of configuring
directories under NT/IIS.  I've had the experience of configuring two
directories exactly the same but only being able to run scripts in one of
the directories.

Another tip:  If you don't intended to use FrontPage (speaking of
abominations) to manage the web site, make sure you chose the option not
to install it when installing IIS.  It takes over and conflicts with
attempts to do configuration through the normal NT tools and you can't
solve the problem by uninstalling once you've installed.  You should
install FrontPage only if you're committed to it, which likely means
you're going with ASPs rather than Perl scripts.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo


On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Dan Lester wrote:

> At 06:18 PM 8/27/99 -0700, Shirl Kennedy wrote:
> >My Web site currently runs on a venerable old DEC Alpha machine.  I am 
> >being "upgraded" to NT and IIS this fall.  I am wondering what will become 
> >of my PERL scripts.  I know there is a Win32 version of PERL.  How much 
> >agony will be involved in converting the UNIX flavor to the Win32 flavor?
> 
> My best wishes.  Not regarding any of the platforms (though I run NT, but 
> NOT with IIS, which I consider an abomination).  But changes are always 
> rough.  When we were doing our authentication script the main thing we 
> missed was an 'rsh' and having to substitute a telnet session 
> instead.   I'm sure there are others.  The latest from www.activestate.com 
> (free Perl) is excellent.
> 
> dan
> 
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