Date: 9 Sep 2001 22:24:12 GMT From: damian@qimr.edu.au (Damian James) Subject: Re: Difference between .pl, .cgi, and .pm File Extensions. Message-Id: Trewth Seeker chose 6 Sep 2001 18:44:55 -0700 to say this: >"J?gen Exner" wrote in message news:<3b8fcb68$1@news.microsoft.com>... >> "Trewth Seeker" wrote in message >> news:d690a633.0108302015.60293f45@posting.google.com... >> > .pl and .cgi files also must be "installed onto a server" -- where *else* >> > do you expect them to be? >> >> Hmm, then I guess my computer is broken. >> If I type "foobar.cgi" at the command line my computer will run the program >> "foobar.cgi". No server of whatever kind involved here. > >Your PC is a server of a kind. Dude, you are confusing the notion of a machine with web-server software running (which would be necessary to provide a CGI environment) with a machine that merely has perl installed -- which need not be serving anything at all. This suggests that you are making an implicit assumption that Perl is only for CGI. Many people here would find that not merely wrong, but also vaguely offensive. Myself, I wouldn't even go so far as to assume that Juergen is using a peecee... I suggest you refrain from making blanket statements involving such generalisations until you have these details cleared up at least. :-) Cheers, Damian -- @:=grep!(m!$/|#!..$|),split//,;@;=0..$#:;while($:=@;){$;=rand $:--,@;[$;,$:]=@;[$:,$;]while$:;push@|,shift@;if$;[0]==@|;select$,, $,,$,,1/80;print qq x\bxx((@;+@|)*$|++),@:[@|,@;],!@;&&$/} __END__ Just another Perl Hacker, ### rev 3.3 -- stupidectomy performed :-)