Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / May 2005

The BBC (= British Broadcasting Corporation) CPAN User has a nice module:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Xhtml/
Problem is that it doesn't generate fully valid XHTML in many cases. To remedy
this I wrote a patch, submitted it and filed a bug report:

Hoping someone here has some experience with the Net::AIMTOC module, which
have just started to play with.  Below is the complete working test sample i
made, with the exception being the three ----insert somethign here------
lines.

Hi.
I'm struggling with a GD::Graph -problem.
I want to create a graph with bars by
adding(+) the execution time from each little job within my nightbatch.

Is there any way to read the notes/comments attached to a cell using
SpreadSheet::ParseExcel or a different module? I searched CPAN and
google and didnt find any hints.
thnx,

i got problem with Win32:API module. I have instaled ActivePerl on
windows 95 (i must use this one ;/ ) after this i have downloded
binary package Win32-Api, and ppm install Win32-API.ppd.
But when i try to run my program i get error:

Any help appreciated here.
I am writing a quick script to run through a list of webservers and
return the version they are running (for legitimate purposes I might
add).

Using Perl 5.8.1
     Win2k sp4
I tried to build Text-CHM using VS6, sp5.
Homepage for the module is here

Lately I've gotten into the habit of writing modules by starting with a
script that usually takes the form:
  package Some::Name;
  ...

Hey all,
My servers are not mine, they're shared.  So everytime I need a new module,
I have to go through this whole process.  So in the effort of saving my ISP
time, I was hoping I could ask people's thoughts here and get the right

I want to run X application remotely. I use Net::SSH::Perl and specify
option 'ForwardX11 yes'.
Also in my .ssh/config this option is enabled but X11 connection is not
redirected - application doesn't run. I get an errror 'Could not open

I tried to format the width of the columns but the value did not take.
When I open the perl.xls file, I saw the columns default to 10 for the
width. Do you know why ?
Here is the snippet of the code:

I'm finishing up a module to interface with the Ekahau location
sensing system, and I'm trying to figure out a good top-level
namespace to put it in.  I felt confident people here would have
opinions.  :)

Still new to Perl so this might be a dumb question.  The error reporting
when a script has errors is different when I run it in Perl from a command
prompt, or from Perl in a browser (off of my Linux server).
So where as in the command prompt off of my machine I'll get this:

I am using perl with Windows XP and ActiveState Perl.
I downloaded finance-yahooquote.zip, unzipped it which gave
me a .ppd and .tar.gz file but when I tried to install it
I got this the message below about an MSWin320-x860-multi-thread-5.8

I have an IIS website where users have authenticated using an ID.  I
need to perform a lookup of this ID via Outlook.  A coworker suggested
that I download all the user names from Outlook to a flat file and then
do lookups that way.  He was also able to produce some TCL code that