Re: Problems with 1.4.?

[Andrew S. <an...@ne...>]

On windoze, I've always had good luck getting the windows "shortcut"
concept to work in the place of unix symlinks.  I don't know how to
create shortcuts from the DOS command line, but they are easy enough
to create with the UI.

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Dieter Simader wrote:
> 
> A symlink is a link to another file. To substitute for the symlinks you
> can do the following.
> 
> Thanks to Martin Lillepuu who patched 1.4.5 to work with Win2K
> 
> Here is a manual patch.
> 
> Edit login.pl and am.pl and change the first line
> #!/usr/bin/perl to #!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
> 
> Substitute c:/perl/bin with wherever your perl is installed. I suppose
> #!perl will work too as long as the path is included in the PATH
> environment variable
> 
> copy login.pl to admin.pl
> 
> copy am.pl to
> ap.pl
> ar.pl
> ca.pl
> rp.pl
> ct.pl
> gl.pl
> ic.pl
> ir.pl
> is.pl
> menu.pl
> 
> Edit SL/Form.pm and change line 158 to
> 
>     exec "c:/perl/bin/perl.exe", $argv;
> 
> Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
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> 
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Jess wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dieter,
> > What is a symlink? I don't believe that exists in Windows 2000 Pro does it.?
> > How can I set it up to work under W2K-Pro?
> >
> > Thankyou for your help.
> >
> > Regards Jess