Dear Sir,
You will run into a lot of problems trying to debug a script meant for a unix environment to work on a windows server. Although it is possible, I do-not recommend it.
One big difference with perl on a windows machine is the way the paths are handled. In a unix script the paths are somthing like:
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$path = "/usr/home/path";
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Where as in windows the path needs to look like:
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$path = "c:\\windows\\system";
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And there are a lot more things that are different for windows.
I suggest reading some tutorials in programming in a windows environment if thats where you plan on doing a lot of your work. Otherwise, I suggest getting access to a unix shell somewhere. Which may be the easiest, as a lot of books are written for unix servers.
Hope this helps!
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Jacob Wheeler
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Big Resources Network
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