Re: FormMail.pl: A tiny case in point

Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> 
> Rich Bowen [[email protected]] quoth:
> *>
> *>Not to pick nits, but ...
> *>
> *>C:\>perl -e "print scalar localtime"
> *>Mon Dec 13 21:55:46 1999
> 
> cool...I haven't touched win32 in a looonnnggg time and just assumed it
> would be broken. :)

In recent days, Perl on Win32 has become less distinguishable from Perl
elsewhere. Short of calling system utilities like date and sendmail,
almost everything works as is. Activestate has done a great job of
ensuring this portability.
> 
> Does the rest of his stuff run on wintel? If so, my fear just
> exponentially rose.

Yes and no. FormMail.pl, out of the box, requires sendmail to send mail.
There is, however, a version of it floating around that sends mail on
NT. However, instead of using Mail::Sendmail, or some other CPAN module,
it uses a monstrosity called "blat", which can email a file to an
address. Thus, the data has to be written out to a file, and then you
call blat on that file. Ick.

Others of Matt's scripts work to a greater or lesser degree on Win32.
All of them either work, or someone has written a modified version that
works.

Rich
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