Re: Re: I can't find anything

Yeah I know, I've been here a while. This place is amazing (as opposed the scary flame-fest comp.lang.perl.misc (or Godzilla/Purl Gurl/Kira & Frank Town)). This more of a rant than a question. I've done a lot of cool stuff with Perl (log reading, a lot of log reading) but I get stumped now and again. I just don't use it often enough. I should just take 20 minutes a day a code something, anything, you know until my abs are rock solid ;)
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Re: Re: Re: I can't find anything
by shenme (Priest) on Nov 07, 2003 at 02:00 UTC

And when you get stumped, sometimes all you need to do is mutter into the chatterbox "How do I get the last modify date/time for a file?" and you'll get a clue or two... (but write down the clues in a notes files like someone suggested - I do)

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Re: Re: Re: I can't find anything
by Arunbear (Prior) on Nov 06, 2003 at 21:24 UTC

download the module's distibution from CPAN and unzip it in to a temp directory.

Copy any .pm files (and any subdirectories with .pm files) to the appropriate location under c:\perl\site\lib. e.g. the File::Backup distribution contains a file called Backup.pm which you can copy to c:\perl\site\lib\File\Backup.pm

Limitations: If the module depends on other modules, you will have to repeat the process for them. You'll have to build the HTML docs yourself - otherwise just use the docs on the web. Finally, this will only work for pure Perl modules.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: I can't find anything

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Nov 07, 2003 at 07:38 UTC

Tutorials -> A Guide to Installing Modules

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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