The latest major battler between myself and the Forces of Ignorance assisted by every professional computer programmer on the planet has now been won (humor intended).

Those people seem to have a special language that they keep to themselves. And none of the rest of us can understand it. So, we have to rely on “Trial and error” to get any programming done.

Perl for Windows works differently than Perl on an Internet Server computer.

When Windows sees that you are trying to run a program that ends in .pl it knows that it has to call the Perl interpreter, and where to find it. But on at least some Internet Servers, the computer has no idea what it is supposed to do with a program that ends in .pl.

The first line in your program has to tell the server where the Perl interpreter is located. I figured that out several days ago.

And now I know how Perl communicates with the person who told the Internet server to run the Perl program in the first place.

Perl can store information in a data file on the Internet Server such as a .txt file. And it can store it in a .html Web page file, also on the Internet Server, and then tell your PC to display that .html file.

Or, it can display the information directly on your computer screen.

The latest battle with the forces of darkness and computer programming involve learning that it can do all of those things, and also learning how to get a program to do them.

The issue of file permissions has not yet been investigated. But that should be an easy one. There are only so many options.

What I have now just started asking people out there in cyberspace is what type of graphics program should be used with Internet Server CGI Perl so that charts etc. can be prepared.

On my PC I am using Gnuplot to draw charts. But I don’t know if it will work on an Internet Server.

Yet another battle to be waged in the eternal struggle with the professional computer programmers. But, so far so good, though a little slow.