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My site is hosted on an NT server. Can I run Perl CGI scripts made for Unix, such as the Master Series scripts?

April 26, 2017CGI hosted master NT Perl run scripts server site Unix

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My site is hosted on an NT server. Can I run Perl CGI scripts made for Unix, such as the Master Series scripts?

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In general, Perl CGI scripts made for UNIX are portable to NT except those that send email. UNIX servers have a handy-dandy emailer on board, called sendmail. It is used so much because it is so easy to program for. This sendmail is not prevalent on NT like it is on UNIX, so scripts doing emailing will need to be modified for NT. A method of sending emails that is available on most internet servers of all operating system is SMTP. It takes a bit more programming to utilize SMTP, but I expect more and more scripts to do so in the future because of the rising demand for NT compatible scripts. You can find some NT scripts at The CGI Resource Index.