Malte — Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:00:00 +0000

Most scripts, except for the mentioned issues, will work on both OSes. Only if you go to the system level, like asking a helper application for the current date, or add a user to your LAN, you'll have to think of platform aspects. Besides that, Perl is cross-platform, which is the main reason why its so popular - you can try it out at home on your WinDose and then use it on your UNIX webserver.

Malte

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Ferret — Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:58:00 +0000

I have never actually had a unix box in front of me. Although I have installed many scripts on my hosts box which is unix. So I know what the file path, permissions should be.

I was thinking of partitioning my hard drive and installing FreeBSD. Would this be the same as a websrever I would use for web hosting it the aspect of writing code on it?

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JP Stones — Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:48:00 +0000

How is it going?
JP

Ferret — Thu, 23 Dec 1999 05:44:00 +0000

Right now I am trying to figure out the difference between the perl I write on my pc and the perl I would write on a unix box is. This book is not all that clear on this issue.

Since all the applications I write will be for unix boxes how do I make sure I am writing for them?

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