Red Wolf Chatterbox Client

nathanvit has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello; i've another question for you. I'd like to use a chatterbox client. So i go to Other CB Clients to find one. At the end i decided to use RedWolf MonkChatter because it uses less modules ;-) So i cut and paste its code. I delete "+" before a lot of lines and i launch it but it give me an error:

./redwolf.pl: line 5: use: command not found
./redwolf.pl: line 6: use: command not found
./redwolf.pl: line 9: BEGIN: command not found
./redwolf.pl: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `$win32'
./redwolf.pl: line 10: `  my($win32)=1 if($^O eq 'MSWin32');'
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Have you any suggestion?
The fifth line is use Tk; but if the module is not installed it gives me another error.Am i in wrong?
Thanks.

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Re: Red Wolf Chatterbox Client by smitz (Chaplain) on May 09, 2003 at 14:51 UTC
Does the first line equal `#!path/to/perl?` [download] It looks like your running this through `bash`. If that doesn't work, try running it `perl redwolf.pl` Smitz	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Red Wolf Chatterbox Client by nathanvit (Beadle) on May 09, 2003 at 18:54 UTC
My first then lines of code are: `#!/usr/bin/perl ### Modules use Tk; use IO::Socket; ### Win32 junk BEGIN { my($win32)=1 if($^O eq 'MSWin32'); if($win32) { eval 'use Win32::Shell'; die "$@\n" if($@); } } ### Configurables $maxlines=500; $blanknode=14532; $delaysec=10; # $proxy='';` [download] If i launch it as ./redwolf.pl it gives me the error as in my first article. The path /usr/bin/perl is ok!!! On the contrary if i run perl redwolf.pl it works but it doesn't connect to my perl monks account and i can't chat with this client!!! Any suggestions?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Red Wolf Chatterbox Client by artist (Parson) on May 09, 2003 at 15:11 UTC
So i cut and paste its code. I delete "+" before a lot of lines Well, you don't need to do that. There is always a download link for the code (d/l code) at the end of the node. Which allows you have to have the code without those '+' at the beginning. Also post the first few lines of code that you got (1..10), and we can see better of what you have. Mention your operating system and perl path, to have it more clear. artist	[reply]
Re: Red Wolf Chatterbox Client by dvergin (Monsignor) on May 10, 2003 at 06:04 UTC
Look again at the top of the file. I just downloaded RedWolf MonkChatter and tried it. I got similar results and then noticed that '#!/usr/bin/perl' was the second line in the file. The first line was blank -- easy to miss. Once I fixed that, the program ran. HTH David ------------------------------------------------------------ "Perl is a mess and that's good because the problem space is also a mess." - Larry Wall	[reply]