Thank you for the help. It worked. Now if I can only,... > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:10:58 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Joshua b. Jore" <josh at greentechnologist.org> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Perl/MySQL/Windoz question > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oh sure. Some our production NT 4.0SP6a machines (also R5 Domino) use > ActiveState perl, DBI, DBD and a custom Clarify module to speak to Oracle. > It works so well that I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. > > `ppm' or is that `ppd' is your friend. Go execute that from a console and > exec `install DBI' and then whatever DBD is appropriate for you. > > Joshua b. Jore > http://www.greentechnologist.org > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Marc Olivier wrote: > > > Hello. Newbie question. I have Perl and MySQL up and running on a Linux > > platform. I can connect to my database now on Linux. However, I also have > > ActiveState Perl on Windows NT at work, and MySQL, too. I can put stuff into > > the database at work, too, but I can't access it to get hardcopy printouts > > using Perl. There is a module, DBI that's missing, and apparently was not > > included on the CD that came with the book. I did some research on the web, > > and if I read things correctly, DBI on a Win32 platform is still > > experimental. The other manual on MySQL discussed doing API with C and PHP. > > I actually wanted to do everything under Perl right now (while it's still > > fresh in my mind, and I'm a lot farther with Perl than with either C and PHP > > is a complete mystery right now). Has anyone out there found DBD and DBI > > modules that work under Windows, especially Windows NT 4.0 and 4.5 (I'm not > > sure which, so I mentioned both)? > > > > Thanks. > > Marc > > > >