Finding free space on the local hard drives

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Re: Finding free space on the local hard drives by Melly (Chaplain) on Mar 16, 2006 at 15:05 UTC
I suppose the obvious question here is have you installed Win32::DriveInfo if, at the command prompt, you typed "ppm", then "install Win32::DriveInfo", then 'quit', the answer is yes.... If you haven't done that, do it (but make sure you've got an internet connection active at the time) Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk	[reply]
Re: Finding free space on the local hard drives by gawatkins (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2006 at 15:23 UTC
You might want to check out the Tutorial A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++, It explains the proper method of installing modules downloaded from CPAN. Along with the ability to install modules not found on the PPM servers, you will also gain an understanting into what is actually going on behind the scenes in a module install. Every win32 user should do it aleast once. Thank you, Greg W.	[reply]
Re: Finding free space on the local hard drives by planetscape (Chancellor) on Mar 16, 2006 at 18:58 UTC
In an attempt to stave off the inevitable torrent of "so how do I..." ;-) , please see this repository of Perl Scripts for working with Physical and Logical Disks. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
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