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Hi I am trying to set up a USB alcatel speedtouch modem, the little icon turns green in the system tray so i know that its working ok, however when i try to connect to my ISP it wont connect and just hangs with the words varifying username and password (these are correct) What is going on...

Hi all... i have a cgi script which stores variables from a web form in a text.file i would like also to send a confirmation email to the person who submitted the form. my cgi is like this... #!\Perl\bin\perl require "subparseform.lib"; &Parse_Form; $pw = $formdata{'pw'}; $an =...

Hi thanx for the reply... Im very new to perl/cgi so please be patient with me,just how would that fit in with this existing script, i tried just adding bits where i thought they may need to go but it didnt work, can you please point me in the right direction, also if i wanted to send a...

Hi i need to be able to save a text file as the server time and date ie...2008100902.txt how do i get the server time and date and convert them into variables that i can use, im running win98se and apache! thanx in advance for any help offered:-)

Hi thanx for the reply... The problem was the path should have had forward slashes "/"instead of backward slashes..."\" its working sweet as now :-)

Hi all i need some help with this its driving me mad...basically i have a cgi that writes a new file when activated. the cgi is as follows... #!C:\Program Files\Abria Merlin\Perl\bin\perl require "subparseform.lib"; &Parse_Form; $n1 = $formdata{'n1'}; @New = ("n1=$n1")...

ok sussed it out for myself.... replace this:- open (LOG, ">/var/www/html/priory/tf/0/txt1.txt") || &ErrorMessage with this:- open (LOG, ">/var/www/html/priory/tf/0/$n1.txt") || &ErrorMessage

hi i have a perl script that when initiated writes to a specific file, however i need to modify this so that the file it writes to is user defined ie...file path passed via a variable from some remote client..and then stored on the server. Here is my perl script... #!/usr/bin/perl require...

ok thanx..

Hi all i have apache running on a win98se machine, i have a script in my cgi-bin that should be writing to a text file "text.txt" in my htdocs\site\ folder. The only trouble is it isnt writing to this file but creating a text file in my cgi-bin called "ext.txt". It writes...

thanks for the reply....i sort of sussed that out having tested a few trial file names ...oh well just means i have to rename all of my variables and redo the scripts...you can only learn by your mistakes as the saying goes:-)

please ignore the $'1a' on line 13 of the modified script it is $1a in the script on the server......i pasted in the wrong file.... my first post still applies so any advice would be helpful Thanks

Hi I have tested the following script out which works fine... #!/usr/bin/perl require "subparseform.lib"; &Parse_Form; #Credits #Author: Jeffrey F. Hill #Website: http://www.Flash-db.com #Usage: Use this script for anything - It's doubtful that anyone will give me any credit #so...

hi got it working now thanks very much to all that helped me out, its good to know that help is at hand:-) No doubt i wll be posting again soon when i try a little bit of php and xml out...lol

hi again ok i have tried your suggestions above but still it isnt working (error 500) again!! looking in my error.log the output is this ... malformed header from script. Bad header-this is my first perl script: /var/www/cgi-bin/hello.pl any ideas? Better still has anybody got a correctly...