Subject: Re: tinderbox hosts
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 09:56:39 CDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Colvin" <jimcolvin@prodigy.net>
To: "Sam TH" <sam@uchicago.edu>; "Paul Rohr" <paul@abisource.com>
Cc: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: tinderbox hosts
> I have a p3-450 running Win 98 with a dsl connection that I would like to
> volunteer as a tinderbox host. I have MSVC6 standard edition (not
professional).
> I did a cvs checkout of the 0.9.3 source tonight, and it builds
successfully
> using Cygwin 1.1.8.
>
> I see several potential problems. My dsl connection doesn't have a fixed
ip
> address. Also this machine is on a lan behind a Linksys Cable/DSL Router.
The
> router does a lot of ip packet filtering although this is configurable. I
run
> the ZoneAlarm software firewall on all of my computers including this one.
> Finally, I know nothing about perl. How does one run perl scripts on
Windows?
It's easy, you have 2 options:
1) just install ActiveState Perl
(http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/) and add the bin
directory (for instance C:\Perl\bin) to your PATH.
2) If you have perl from the cygwin distribution, then you're done.
To use it, just type:
perl scriptname.pl
Cheers,
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela e98cuenc@yahoo.com
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