Once I have downloaded the DBD/DBI for NT I have to unzip it.

(I had to do this direct from CPAN as the ppm thing didn't work. It kept timing out.
I'm behind a corporate firewall so thats probably why.)

Must I save this data to the same drectory as my Perl Source?
At the moment the problem that I have been posting is that
when the script is run I get an error saying that it:

 can't locate DBD/ODBC.pm in @INC (@INC contains: c:\bin\perl\lib c:\BIN\perl\site\lib

My directory structure is c:\bin\perl\lib (this is where I have ODBC.pm in the DBD-ODBC-0.28 sub-directory) and c:\bin\perl\site\lib (here I have a dbi and a dbd sub-directory, but no sign of ODBC.pm)

The actual code to access the database is fine, I can handle that, its just installing theses modules and getting the script to find them...

yours,
Losing the head in Belfast,
Fian....

In reply to Extract DBI/DBD to where?? by Fian

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