The Perl Cookbook has pride of place on my computer books shelf and is a great and trusted resource but... many of the recipes don't appear to work under Win32.

From a quick Super Search it seems that not only I, (Calling a Perl filter script from command line), but also others (e.g. SIGINT help), have experienced problems with blithely copying Cookbook scripts into the editor of champions (notepad.exe anyone?)

In my example above, even simple tasks like writing a filter (Recipe 7.7) are problematic.

And then, much of the Interface recipes in Section 15 don't look as if they will work (I get errors like Termios is not implemented on this architecture - Win32's problem no doubt, but not incredibly helpful...)
I haven't yet downloaded Term::ReadKey to test all of the recipes that include it, but really, Win32::Console looks like it might be easier (though of course much less portable!).

And unfortunately a simple Gas Mark - Centigrade table isn't going to fix all of these issues!

Is there already a "Win32 Perl Cookbook" with recipes using Win32 measurements? If not, would it be useful to start one up? I can post any of the solutions that I have found, for what they are worth!

Cheerio!
Osfameron

In reply to Win32 Perl Cookbook by osfameron

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