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in thread DDE Server? Client?

OK, I installed Active Perl, but ppm couldn't find Win32::DDE (and I couldn't find it in the list of modules for either 5.6 or 5.8 -
http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8.html ).

I do see it here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/Perl/dist_html?dist_id=9961

Does that mean it exists for 5.6 only (of course I installed 5.8)?

On the other hand, an internet search found it here:
http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppmdir.html

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Re: Re: Re: DDE Server? Client?
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Mar 31, 2004 at 23:45 UTC

    Yes it is only available for 5.6. Get 5.6. Get ppm.zip from here http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/Win32-DDE.zip Install.

    I have not looked at it but it will almost certainly be a binary so incompatible between 5.8/5.6 You need VCC to compile binaries on win32. See Tutorials for my module install/compile guides.

    cheers

    tachyon

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      It seems I could only get an old version of Win32::DDE 
      ppm> rep
Repositories:
[1] ActiveState Package Repository
[2] ActiveState PPM2 Repository
ppm> install Win32::DDE
Searching for 'Win32::DDE' returned multiple results. Using 'search' i
+nstead...
Searching in Active Repositories
  1. Win32-DDE [0.02] Perl extension for Win32 DDE callback
  2. Win32-DDE  [0.0]
ppm> install 1
Package 1:
Error: PPD for 'Win32-DDE.ppd' could not be found.
ppm> install 2
Package 2:
====================
Install 'Win32-DDE' version 0.0 in ActivePerl 5.6.1.635.
====================
Downloaded 20100 bytes.
Extracting 29/29: blib/html/site/lib/Win32/DDE/Client.html
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.bs
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.dll
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.exp
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.lib
Installing C:\programs\perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE.html
Installing C:\programs\perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Callback.html
Installing C:\programs\perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Client.html
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE.pm
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Callback.pm
Installing C:\programs\perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Client.pm
Successfully installed Win32-DDE version 0.0 in ActivePerl 5.6.1.635.

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      Any ideas about what went wrong? Will 0.0 work? Thanks again.
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        See A Guide To Installing Modules. Use the link I provided to download the zipped ppm. Here it is AGAIN http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/Win32-DDE.zip Unzip. I extracted it into tmp. 

        C:\>cd tmp

C:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 70BC-B980

 Directory of C:\tmp

02/04/2004  11:14       <DIR>          .
02/04/2004  11:14       <DIR>          ..
02/04/2004  11:14       <DIR>          MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
24/01/2003  18:26                  130 README
24/01/2003  18:26                  367 Win32-DDE.ppd
              13 File(s)         12,664 bytes
               4 Dir(s)   4,287,229,952 bytes free

C:\tmp>ppm install win32-dde.ppd
Installing package 'win32-dde.ppd'...
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.bs
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.dll
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.exp
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Win32\DDE\DDE.lib
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE.html
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Callback.html
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Client.html
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Callback.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Win32\DDE\Client.pm

C:\tmp>

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        cheers

        tachyon

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