Re: Perl, Lotus Notes, and Linux

1998-04-23 Thread James Youngman
> "Michael" == Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Here's the layout: On the cd is a shell script called Michael> install. It tries to figure out which kind of system it's Michael> running on, and then calls another program based on its Michael> guess. The systems it

Re: Perl, Lotus Notes, and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Jinks
Andrew Burton wrote: > I'm confused. > > My previous comments were based almost entirely on your post in the > mailing list that the error was on line 1 of a perl script. I think I used that term improperly. Maybe I should have said "perl executable"? > That's > almost always #!/bin/perl or s

Oops: Re: Perl, Lotus Notes, and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Jinks
I missed the whole point in that last post. The install _script_ is actually fine; it's the app that gets called from the script (I'm pretty sure) which is causing the failure. I've looked at the app and it's a binary, so if I'm going to make it work I'll have to bend my system to it, not the ot

Re: Perl, Lotus Notes, and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Jinks
Andrew Burton wrote: > I take it you've edited the install script? No > Did you do it with a > native UNIX editor? I suspect not. :) If I were in the habit of using non-Unix stuff, I wouldn't need to shoehorn Notes onto my Linux box. . . vi is the Way. . . But there's no telling what idi

Perl, Lotus Notes, and Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Michael Jinks
My current low-priority project is getting Lotus Notes for Unix to install on my RedHat box. The Notes installer invokes a perl script based on the architecture where it thinks it's running; I've gotten as far as fooling it into thinking that my machine is a Sun running on an x86, but the perl ap