[MacPerl] Re: Windmail & Perl

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 9:31 -0800 12/23/99, owner-macperl-webcgi@macperl.org wrote:
>I'm having a problem that I hope someone out there can help me with. I'm
>trying to use a "sendmail" type program called "Windmail" with Perl on
>Windows 95. I'm getting a Bad Command error with the first line of the
>following code:
>
>open(MAIL,"|windmail -t");
>print MAIL "To: salmo004\@tc.umn.edu \n";
>print MAIL "From: tsalmon\@cce.umn.edu \n";
>print MAIL "Subject: Hello World \n\n";
>print MAIL "This is the easiest way to implement WindMail \n";
>print MAIL "in a CGI script written in Perl.\n";
># The next line is very important
>print MAIL "\n.\n";
>close(MAIL);
>
>Can anyone help me with the first line in the above code? Why isn't this
>working?

Can the program windmail be located in the current working directory?  You
might try a full path to where you know it is.

You might also wish to join the mailing list at least long enough to see
the answer conveniently...perhaps you already have.

  --John
-- 
John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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