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Sane · Sep 20th, 2007, 1:44 PM

Hey guys, it's been a while. I'm only here for a quick question, because I need this answered asap for the work I'm doing (at Nortel btw).

I've written the simplest piece of code ever, on a Mac in MacPerl.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World!";

I can run this fine on the Mac's test console, receiving the appropriate output.

However, when I upload it to the Linux server via Fetch, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Despite the fact that there are hundreds of other working Perl scripts in that exact same directory (with the same file permissions).

My first thought is that the ASCII is being encoded differently, such as with newlines and quotations. Can anyone confirm this, and suggest a fix?

P.S. Congrats PFO. You are the first website (besides Google) that displays correctly on the old Internet Explorer so far! You're a life saver!

fahlyn · Nov 1st, 2007, 8:30 PM

The problem is that you're not printing a header....try adding this

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print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

Sane · Nov 1st, 2007, 8:46 PM

I figured out it wasn't transferring the newlines properly. Thanks for the help anyways.

Sep 20th, 2007, 1:44 PM	#1
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,799 Rep Power: 5	Running a Mac-Written Script on a Linux Machine Hey guys, it's been a while. I'm only here for a quick question, because I need this answered asap for the work I'm doing (at Nortel btw). I've written the simplest piece of code ever, on a Mac in MacPerl. (Toggle Plain Text) #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!"; #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!"; I can run this fine on the Mac's test console, receiving the appropriate output. However, when I upload it to the Linux server via Fetch, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Despite the fact that there are hundreds of other working Perl scripts in that exact same directory (with the same file permissions). My first thought is that the ASCII is being encoded differently, such as with newlines and quotations. Can anyone confirm this, and suggest a fix? P.S. Congrats PFO. You are the first website (besides Google) that displays correctly on the old Internet Explorer so far! You're a life saver!

Nov 1st, 2007, 8:30 PM	#2
fahlyn Newbie Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Re: Running a Mac-Written Script on a Linux Machine The problem is that you're not printing a header....try adding this (Toggle Plain Text) print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

Nov 1st, 2007, 8:46 PM	#3
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,799 Rep Power: 5	Re: Running a Mac-Written Script on a Linux Machine I figured out it wasn't transferring the newlines properly. Thanks for the help anyways.

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