- From: Abigail <abigail@ny.fnx.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 10:26:25 -0500 (EST)
- To: mkk41854@tree.egr.uh.edu (Mangesh K Kanaskar)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
You, Mangesh K Kanaskar, wrote: ++ ++ Can anyone tell me what is the significance of the following ++ line in running perl scripts on Windows NT: ++ ++ push(@INC,"/pub/other-directories/cgi-bin"); I wonder what this has to do with WWW... But anyway, it adds a directory to search in when looking for files to "use" or "require". ++ What is this required for? ++ ++ Also what is the need of associating a .pl file with ++ perl.exe? perl.exe is your perl engine. The .pl file is your program. BTW, never, never put your perl.exe in your cgi-bin. Unless you don't mind your disks being cleared out. See <URL: http://www.perl.com/perl/news/latro-announce.html> <URL: ftp://cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-96.11.interpreters_in_cgi_bin_dir> Abigail
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