Yes, the BEGIN {} block is used on systems with X-Windows to forward the display to a remote computer. Unless WinXP has adopted an X-Windows environment (hey, I'm a novice on XP, it's possible), I don't think that this applies to me.

Even so, I gave it a try with my best guess at a local display address ( $ENV{'DISPLAY'} = 'XXX.XX.X.XX:0.0';), but it still didn't work.

I have recently used this technique to debug scripts on a Linux box via Exceed on a WinXP box, so it's good advice, just not (directly?) applicable to me.

Thanks,
-Dave

In reply to Re: Re: Devel::ptkdb, CGI script, Apache, WinXP -- why won't it work? by dpmott
in thread Devel::ptkdb, CGI script, Apache, WinXP -- why won't it work? by dpmott

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