Re: [MacPerl] web cgi question

[Anthony Eden <aeden@mail.vcn.net>]

You can save your script as a plaintext and it will work on
other platforms as long as:

1.) There are no platform specific pieces of code (ie. functions
that call Mac alerts, or UNIX functions such as `date`

2.) The first line points to the PERL interpreter (ie. #!/usr/bin/perl
or something similar that points directly to the interpreter, of course
this can be changed very easily...)

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden
Hurricane Online Editor

On Wed, 29 May 1996, p sears wrote:

> Hello Perlers!  I am a novice perl person and am already being asked to
> make things for people (that's what I get for learning to use a new tool!
> The very reason I won't learn to use Mom's chainsaw...anyway...).  I have
> some html pages with cgis working on them - they are saved as machttp cgis
> - my question is, can I save them as a runtime or droplet or plaintext and
> give them to someone on a different system (UNIX perhaps) that is _not_
> running Perl and still have them work?  If anyone can help me with this,
> I'd really appreciate it!
> 
> _______________________________________________________
> Thanks for your kind attention - I'm outta here!
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