Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / October 2003

Mike,
I was encountering the same errors as you in my quest to install DBD::mysql
and discovered that under the following setup:
Custom installed Perl 5.8.1 RC3 - No multi-threading

I have a MacPerl script I am trying to transfer from OS9 to OSX.
There are two problems: cron and a progress bar.
Regarding 'cron', the perl script is kicked off by an AS application,
so the problem really is how to get the AS application to run at

I've got a script that takes numbers similar to those below and then rounds
them and adds them together using code similar to what is below.
   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
   use strict;

Here is a little Perl routine that shows exactly what is going on.
   #!/usr/bin/perl -w
   $bigtwo = 2**32;
   while ($a = <DATA>) {

Having spent hours trying to find a simple answer (learning lots
along the way), I'm still hoping that there is a simple answer:
Can I run one Perl script from inside another?
I have a large set of scripts that I usually run one-at-a-time, but I

I'm working on a script that takes a database and a
template and from them generates a bunch of HTML. The
pages don't need changing frequently (once every 4-6
months) and so the program is not actually a CGI. Long