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

Hello monks...

I used PAR's "pp" function to make a Windows .exe file from a Perl script. I've run this script on a number of machines successfully, but I recently shipped it to a machine on which it will not run. When I attempt to run it, I get a Windows pop-up box that says 

par.exe- No Disk #(this is the window title)

There is no disk in the drive.  Please insert a disk into drive \Devic
+e\Harddisk\DR1 

Cancel/Try Again/Continue #(these are buttons)

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The problem box is running Win2KPro. PAR is version 0.06 on ActiveState Perl 5.8.3

Any suggestions about what's going on with PAR would be welcome. I'm stumped.

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Re: Help with strange PAR error msg. on Windows?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 07, 2004 at 20:07 UTC
    The problem box is running Win2KPro. PAR is version 0.06 on ActiveState Perl 5.8.3
    Upgrade. PAR is currently at version 0.85.

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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