suPerlative: Downloading, Installation, and Usage
The scripts were developed on
UNIX systems and the following basically
assumes you would be downloading them to a UNIX system.
We would expect them to work, possibly with slight modification,
on other operating systems but we've never tried this so can't offer any
suggestions or help.
If your system is UNIX but you aren't very familiar with UNIX, we
recommend
Introduction to UNIX for Web Developers.
The Perl scripts should be displayed in your browser window when you
click on the links to them. Just save to disk - or, if you want the
script on an ISP system, rather than downloading to your PC and then
FTPing it over, see if they have
lynx - if so, then download it directly to your ISP with lynx.
Find out where Perl is on your system - in UNIX, say which
perl - and replace the first line of the perl script(s) with
this location.
Edit all the require statements to refer to the place
where you are placing any required files such as
ht_subs.pl.
Find out which version of Perl you have - perl -v
and if it's less than 5, you may need to change a couple of 5-isms
such as replacing 'or' with '||'.
Change the permissions of the script(s) to include 'execute' mode,
e.g. chmod +x ht
Read the usage instructions in each script.
For example, some scripts expect an input file
[and this is typically a list of filenames such as created by UNIX's
find utility] so you might need to say vlinks.pl < dir
Others, such as ht expect a file name, e.g.
ht index.ht [although in this specific example,
index.ht is the default so you could safely omit it].
We have no plans at this time to provide the scripts in a single file.
suPerlative: CGI and Other Scripts
suPerlative Web Construction !
suPerlative: Summary
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