Perl Scripts

"I am being told No such file or directory"

Upload your Perl script in ascii mode, not binary mode.

Use rz -a for telnet users, or the ascii mode for ftp users.

Sometimes it seems like this is asked about once a day, so we're going to repeat it, loudly.

Upload your Perl script in ascii mode, not binary mode. Use rz -a for telnet users, or the ascii mode for ftp users. 

Or, it could be that your script expects Perl in a different place than we have it. Make sure that the first line of the script starts #!/usr/local/bin/perl or #!/usr/bin/perl.

"I get errors such as Literal @sdfsdf now requires backslash at ./test.rob line 2, within string Execution of ./test.rob aborted due to compilation errors." Place a "\" before such offending @ characters. This is an incompatibility between Perl 5 and Perl 4.

Alternatively you could change the first line in your Perl program from #!/usr/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/perl4

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