On Tuesday 26 February 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Bob Stia wrote:
> > No installation required. The whole file is perl.  Only problem
> > is that I cannot start the program.  I have the proper version of
> > perl and Tcl/Tk.  How does one start the script?
>
> There are a few issues that could raise their heads...
................<snip>........
> Assuming that's all ready to go, the script itself might reference
> its interpreter in a specific location.  That is, the first line of
> the script might read
>
> 	#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> where *your* Perl is actually located in /usr/bin/perl.  The way to
> get around this is to edit the script in question or just run the
> script like you do with java programs:
>
> 	perl /usr/local/games/solitaire
>
> If you *still* can't run the script, there's a few more things you
> can try.  (More on that if these steps fail.)
Paul,
Thanks...My perl is in /usr/bin/perl as is also /usr/bin/perl5.6  
I ran it as suggested      perl /usr/local/games/pysol   and I 
received a reply: "Runtime error: Bad magic number in .pyc file"
At least that is something....    :-(
 More guidance please ?
Bob S
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