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installing perl modules quietly
Hi, To do this with linux I use a send/expect script ... and I think that it exists a windows version of the expect command even if I never used it...try to search on the web "expect windows" good luck! -
alarm for windows?
Hi, Which version of perl do you use? When I execute this code (without the eval) I receive the next error: The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at testAlarm.pl line 6. -
problem with ODBC
Thank you for your quick answer! in fact my problem was that I used 'dsn=' instead of 'filedsn=' -
alarm for windows?
Hi, I'm using Perl v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread on a win 2000 server computer. My perl script sometimes stops the execution indefinitely without finishing! to prevent this behaviour I tried to use alarm to detect when this happens... but it doesn't work on Windows OS...do you... -
problem with ODBC
The use of a File DSN is the same that the user DSN? because I created the File DSN but from perl was impossible to open it! (and the test connection of the ODBC dialog was ok) -
problem with ODBC
Rieekan: I'm going to try the DBD::ODBC to evaluate if it will easy to replace the win32 version! But which is the problem of joining tables with no relationships??? the tables that I use have sometimes a primary key...but the concept of foreign key I think was unknown to the person who... -
problem with ODBC
Hello, I'm using perl + win32::ODBC and my application freezes sometimes blocking the data base(SQL Server)! Somebody knows how to prevent these freezes or detect when the application is frozen? I tried to use alarm but doesn't work with windows. Or to put a timeout to the odbc handler, but...
