[scoop] plucker-build doesn't like the arguments passed to it (WinNT)

[Randy O. <ror...@bi...>]

I've just downloaded sitescooper today, and I'm trying to get it working
with plucker (which I've been using happily for quite some time).

In the sitescooper directory:
> perl sitescooper.pl -plucker -site
site_samples\linux\debian_weekly_news.site

Here's the output:
=====
Reading configuration from "D:\Program
Files\sitescooper-3.1.2\sitescooper.cf".
Using site choices from "D:\Program
Files\sitescooper-3.1.2\tmp\site_choices.txt
".
Restricting to sites: site_samples\linux\debian_weekly_news.site
Checking for availability of the "diff.exe" command...
SITE START: now scooping site "site_samples\linux\debian_weekly_news.site".
Reading: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/
2001-Nov-28: Debian Weekly News: 1 stories downloaded (6.5 K uncompressed).
Running: plucker-build  -p"D:\Program Files\sitescooper-3.1.2\tmp\txt\20
01_11_28_Debian_Weekly_News" -s scoop
Only options are allowed as arguments.
Usage: D:\Program Files\Plucker\PyPlucker\Spider.py -c | -f <docname>
[OPTIONAL
S]
    -c, --update-cache:
                   Write a traditional cache directory in the <plucker dir>
    -f <name prefix>, --doc-file=<name prefix>
[... snippage ...]
Note that you must specify either -f or -c.

Error executing plucker-build. Error: 1
Press any key to continue...
=====

I noticed that there wasn't a -f or -c option specified, so I poked around
and found where the command is put together (Main.pm, convert_output(), line
2024) and added "-f test" before the -p option, and still got the same
result.  (The command echoed does include the "-f test" that I added, so my
change was working.)  The version of plucker-build.exe that I'm using is
dated 14-08-01, size 77824 bytes, and should be from the current version
(1.1.13) of Plucker.  Any suggestions, or requests for further information?

Also, while editing Main.pm I noticed (eventually) that there's a hard-coded
Ctrl-M at line 1673, which confused my editor a bit (rather, my editor
happily and silently removed it, which then confused perl).  I changed that
to \0x0d which seems to at least make perl happy, but I don't know anywhere
near enough about perl to know if it will actually work in a regexp.  (I've
read chapter one and half of chapter two of the Llama book!)

Thanks for any help!

Randy Orrison