I doubt it's the real problem, but as an aside, when using Perl I never use a backslash ("\") as my directory separator, as you have to worry about creating unintended escape-sequences (you'd really want to write it as "D:\\" if you insist on using backslashes). You are much better off using a forward-slash ("/") as directory separator when working with Perl; this gives you cross-platform compatibility.

Jon

i totally agree, but either way i still get "alt_url" unknown option... thanks for the heads up though.

I think that putting double quotes around the URL will do the trick.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

no such luck, thanks for the reply though...

i tried:


perl -w -MWebFetch::Slashdot -e "&fetch_main" -- --dir D:\ --alt_url "
+http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml"
[download]


and


perl -w -MWebFetch::Slashdot -e "&fetch_main" -- --dir D:\ [--alt_url 
+"http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml"]
[download]


neither worked...

What happened when you tried the first one?

You can quit attempting it with the square brackets... that won't help. The brackets are commonly used in documentation to indicate that the arguments contained in them are optional.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";