Oct 29, 2000, 6:03 PM
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Newbie question here. Bought the book "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" , and d/l'ed ActiveState Perl and ran install. Updated path. Perl works.
proper config for using Win32
How is the Windows 2000 system supposed to be configured to use the Win32 Extension ??
with following script ( pg 118).
$longname = 'words.secret';
$shortname = Win32::GetShortPathName($longname);
print ("shortname is: ", $shortname);
problem is the $shortname is always undefined.
1. what module, extension, file do I need for Win32 extensions?
2. what directory is the module, extension, file that I need supposed to be in.
3. is there futher system configuration I need to make, or define a system variable?