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any other suggestions which don't require a degree in gobbledegook are welcome.  ;D

all i know is perl is some kind of programming language, and these appear to print out the lettering to a website. quite how this happen is magic to me, or possibly gremlins. ahh well, i'll have to fiddle with photoshop i guess. cheers

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hehe..... ;D

Had to be careful on this thread, "Read the noob 4 dummies thread" as an answer to what seems like a very unrelated question might seem a bit hostile when it's really not... :)

In hindsight I think we missed a quick opportunity to poke fun at you....  ;D

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Smash

lol, yeah it was the last place i'd thought of looking. stupidity knows no boundaries i guess.

*scuffles back to lair, humbled*  ;D

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all i know is perl is some kind of programming language, and these appear to print out the lettering to a website. quite how this happen is magic to me

it's not that complicated if you know how to call them.

I don't know if that's also valid for DOS, but in a bash terminal you must type

[tt]./scriptname.pl[/tt] to run it.

or you may try [tt]perl scriptname[/tt]; of course the filepaths have to match.

You may peek into the file itself to lern about parameters you have to pass, but what I saw from these scripts, you may adapt them simply for you needs.

Cheers,

Michael

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http://www.pic101.com/mcgahee/

What a nice guy he is! :)

once again stryd, thanks!

it's not that complicated if you know how to call them.

I don't know if that's also valid for DOS, but in a bash terminal you must type

./scriptname.pl to run it.

or you may try perl scriptname; of course the filepaths have to match.

You may peek into the file itself to lern about parameters you have to pass, but what I saw from these scripts, you may adapt them simply for you needs.

Cheers,

Michael

thanks michael, i'll look into how it all works.

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perl vx and it doesn´t exist! Is it the path problem?

yes, you got to change the current path before calling this; or submit the whole path;

so in bash it would be either:

[tt]

cd /path/to/perl/script/

perl myscript.pl[/tt]            or use the "shortcut":      [tt]./myscript.pl [/tt]

(cd is for change directory; If I remember right it's the same with DOS)

or [tt]

perl /path/to/perl/script/myscript.pl

[/tt]

If the script provides some output (which should normally be the case; eg. infos on expected parameters), then you should see something...

Cheers,

Michael

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Hi

I've just tried one of the script on windows

It can generate all of the screens in .xpm, if the gif convertion is disabled

my $convert_gif = 0;
if I understand correctly, the script needs a conversion program to convert the .xpm to gif:
      system("convert ${output_file}.xpm ${output_file}.gif") && die ("convert failed!\n");
      system("rm ${output_file}.xpm");

*edit: you can find this program here:

you can find this program here:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

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