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This is really strange and I'm not that good with PERL. I have a chat program I purchased a number of years back. I had it working on an old hosting account I had. I am trying to reimplement the program on a new host.

The problem is this:

When I run the script, the error I get is that it can't find a file that is clearly there.

The script is looking for a conf file, and it resides in the same directory as the script itself.

Here is the code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);


$conf_file = "/usr/home/acount_name/public_html/cgi-bin/chatpro.conf";
$default_lang_file = "/usr/home/acount_name/public_html/cgi-bin/chatpro.lang";

&main;

sub main {
$

Are you sure that /usr/home/acount_name/public_html/cgi-bin/ is the correct path to your account?

If it is try

use lib /usr/home/acount_name/public_html/cgi-bin/

put that line near the top of your perl script so the path will be added to th @INC variable. Perl should then be able to find your module.



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When I do that, I get this error:

quote:

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syntax error at chatpro.cgi line 3, near "/home/account_name"
Execution of chatpro.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

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I don't think this program is going to work on the version of PERL without a major rewrite.

I'm thinking that to have this kind of chat, I'm going to have to write one using PHP. Which would give Me more experience with PHP. I was just looking to save some time.

Thanks for your help hyperbole.

I'm sorry. My fault. You need to put the path name in quotes

use lib "/usr/home/acount_name/public_html/cgi-bin/";

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[This message has been edited by hyperbole (edited 02-25-2004).]

I recieved the original error code. I do appreciate your help. I'm going to write a PHP version since I'm thinking that this is a compatability problem between versions of PERL.

When I purchased the program, PERL4 was still the most popular but 5 was making huge inroads.

Or, the INC is misconfigured on the server. Not sure.

Again, thanks.