Re: Training Using Windows

At 01:16 PM 4/10/2001 +0100, Simon Myers wrote:
>Hello.  I've been booked to do some Perl training for a company that
>uses Windows.  My Perl experience is nearly all from using it on various
>flavours of Unix.
>
>This shouldn't be a problem -- the course is on generic Perl language
>stuff.  It doesn't include anything like the Win32:: modules, so the
>content of it won't be a problem.
>
>I'm just slightly concerned over the execution, particularly of the
>class exercises as the end of each section.  Can anybody who's done this
>kind of thing before offer advice on any pitfalls I ought to be aware
>of?

  Wordpad is better than Notepad if any of your files come from Unix; the 
former handles the line terminators, the latter displays them as 
boxes.  There are of course much better unbundled editors; gvim works nicely.

  Double clicking on a program will cause the output to flash in a DOS 
window and promptly go away.  I use something like

END { print "Done, hit <RETURN>: " and <STDIN> if $^O =~ /Win32/ }

  You will spend most of your excess time going, "Ok, just grep the files 
for the line containing -- oh, wait a minute --"