From:	awnbreel AT panix DOT com (Michael R Weholt)
Newsgroups:	comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	perl prob (was: Apache on Win95: constant floppy drive access running cgis)
Followup-To:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 1998 00:00:46 GMT
Organization:	Rookery Prawl
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Pardon the self-followup, but just in case anybody in c.i.w.s.m is 
wasting brain cells on this, and in the hope the folks on c.o.m.d have 
some useful advice ...

In article <6a03m5$3qc_002 AT mrw DOT panix DOT com>, 
awnbreel AT panix DOT com (Michael R Weholt) wrote:
>I've got the Apache server up and running (localhost) on my win95 
>machine.
>
>f:\Apache
>e:\perl.exe
>
>Cgi's run fine under this setup, but each time I call a cgi script, 
>the machine goes to the a: drive and makes that lovely 
>clunking-grinding noise, then gives up and runs the cgi script.
>
>You can imagine how entertaining this is for me.

The perl on e: is a port that I got from my travels over in djgpp.  I 
have ActiveState's Perl for Win32 at c:\perl5\bin.  I tried using the 
perl on c: (ActiveState) with the Apache and the machine did *not* 
access the floppy drive.  I went and got the latest OmniHTTPd server, 
"professional" version, installed it, and tried it using both perls.  
Using the perl on e: (djgpp), OmniHTTPd tried to access the floppy 
drive, but didn't when I used the perl on c: (ActiveState)

I then moved the perl on e: (djgpp) to c: and tried it with both 
servers. The machine tried the floppy both times.

*So* ... that answers that question, I guess.


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