RE: Perl OS system equivalence or Perl scripts for UNIX-and-Windows

"Timothy Johnson" <[email protected]> Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:38 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.beginners,gmane.comp.lang.perl.daily.tips
Message-ID <79EEEE28B0432B45BEA63288D90231D7011DEF5B@sfex02.ad.checkpoint.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ricky Zhou [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Perl OS system equivalence or Perl scripts for
UNIX-and-Windows

> On 5/25/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Lots of these scripts have system "<UNIX COMMAND>" on them which of
> > course I
> > can't run on Windows. Can anyone suggest how to get around this? Or
any > white
> papers on how to do this?
> If you have sufficient access to the windows computers (and you want
> absolutely minimal modification), you might want to consider
> environments such as Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/).


My thoughts exactly.  Another alternative would be to check out the Perl
Power Tools versions of the commands to come up with a cross-platform
approximation. =20

http://ppt.perl.org/




-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
<http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>