Thank you for the help. It worked. Now if I can only,...

> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:10:58 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Joshua b. Jore" <josh at greentechnologist.org>
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Perl/MySQL/Windoz question
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> Oh sure. Some our production NT 4.0SP6a machines (also R5 Domino) use
> ActiveState perl, DBI, DBD and a custom Clarify module to speak to Oracle.
> It works so well that I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it.
>
> `ppm' or is that `ppd' is your friend. Go execute that from a console and
> exec `install DBI' and then whatever DBD is appropriate for you.
>
> Joshua b. Jore
> http://www.greentechnologist.org
>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Marc Olivier wrote:
>
> > Hello. Newbie question. I have Perl and MySQL up and running on a Linux
> > platform. I can connect to my database now on Linux. However, I also
have
> > ActiveState Perl on Windows NT at work, and MySQL, too. I can put stuff
into
> > the database at work, too, but I can't access it to get hardcopy
printouts
> > using Perl. There is a module, DBI that's missing, and apparently was
not
> > included on the CD that came with the book. I did some research on the
web,
> > and if I read things correctly, DBI on a Win32 platform is still
> > experimental. The other manual on MySQL discussed doing API with C and
PHP.
> > I actually wanted to do everything under Perl right now (while it's
still
> > fresh in my mind, and I'm a lot farther with Perl than with either C and
PHP
> > is a complete mystery right now). Has anyone out there found DBD and DBI
> > modules that work under Windows, especially Windows NT 4.0 and 4.5 (I'm
not
> > sure which, so I mentioned both)?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Marc
> >
> >