UNIX to NT: Perl scripts

Finding holes in what the differences are between the two environments. Have a perl-based database that users can add and modify there information which is then used to create 'real' mailing lists, majordomo lists, and is pulled onscreen for web viewing.

A new website is on the way developed in the MS environment, and so a NT host has been chosen. Like to do an interim page on the new host, but I'm wondering how much work is going to be needed to get the scripts to be happy in the NT environment. Any good resounces online? Thanks!

-B

perldoc perlport is a good place to start.

You should be minimizing (or avoiding) system calls in the scripts, so hopefully that's not going to be a problem. Also, most of the popular modules that work on *nix work on *doze thanks to hacks by the hard-working authors to fill in the cracks of missing functionality on Windoze. Some modules, however, simply will not work. Some things that work well on *nix are a bit wishy washy on *doze systems (like forking, locking, security, etc.). You mentioned databases... the DBMs are, AFAIK, platform to platform specific.

If you have any specific questions, let us know.

Well, the .db files are comma-delimited flat files. Everything is on the new server, just getting permission issues taken care of. Everything is named correctly (.pl) making sure there are no references to perl in the scripts.

so do you need help? or are you just saying everything's working fine?