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Installing perl module involving dynamic loader
I am having a little trouble installing a perl module without root/superuser access. I do not have much knowledge about the code of the module, but I do know that the module uses a dynamic loader and I am getting errors from it. So I wonder if this is a common/easily-solvable problem. Here is... -
Manipulating another program in Perl
hmmm great! I think the backtcik trick temporarily solved my problem. Though maybe still not the best to call the bew version script everytime inside a while loop... Using it for now to implement the rest of the system first. Thanks for all the help! -
Manipulating another program in Perl
still stuck... ARG! I will try to define my problem better with some non-working script that I wrote: I have two programs (old version and new version) that pretty much do the same thing but output in different formats. When called from shell, the user would be prompted for input. Let's say he... -
Manipulating another program in Perl
I think I understand what you mean now. Am I dealing with a threading problem here? I want the new version of the script to read from STDIN (or another source of input) and at the same time have the previous version of the program open (which would also read from STDIN or the same source of... -
Manipulating another program in Perl
For now, I am just trying to mimic what the previous program was capable to do so to be sure the new intermediate script can be used by the original system. And therefore I mentioned the user input part. but ultimately, the script is used internally in which the system will pass strings into... -
Manipulating another program in Perl
I am given a program in which when it is called, the user can type on the shell and some formatted text would be ouput by the program to the shell. My task is to build an 'intermediate' script that can call the forementioned program, allow the user to type on the shell, read the program's...
