Help a new Perl Student Please

[Honza Pazdziora]

On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 14:36:48 -0500, William M. Toohey <ceo na mptenterprises.com> wrote:
> 
> I tried writing the Perl Code in Word (named "first"), saving as text only
> with a .cgi extention.
> When I uploaded this to my server, it ended up being labeled "first.cgi.txt"
> If I can only get over this bump, the rest of the book seems well written,
> and the language itself seems rather easy for me to learn.  It just seems
> that everyone forgot to include this basic instruction.

Not a problem of Perl, man. It'a a problem of your operating system
and its applications, that do something else than they are told to.
They insert binary characters then and there, they cut ends of your
files, they damage your data ...

Anyway, you just rename the file, using something like

	mv first.cgi.txt first.cgi
or
	move first.cgi.txt first.cgi
or
	click here, click there, turn round, reboot, click OK

whatever your operating system wants you to do to rename the file.

Not a Perl problem.

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