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On Windows, if when you click or type the name of a .pl file, you get an error "is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file", then this means you do not have the .pl file extension associated with the perl interpreter. This is normally done by the installer, but not always.

To associate files:
1) Start windows explorer
2) Select, from the menu, Tools -> Folder Options
3) Select the File Types tab
4) Look in the list for a PL extension. If it does NOT ...
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I've just discovered very important differences between Windows an Unix formats in Perl,at least 5.xx..
MOST IMPORTANT:
Use Unix file format while saving Your script.
otherwise it will have ^M s or smth likely weird in the EOL,
Then DO NOT use my ad hoc initialization in Unix like my $list = ...;
,never worked,doesn't seem to work now,why bother,
just
compare 2 snips bellow:
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Minimal version of problem attached. Numbers such as 1.23 are read ok using perl .mdb driver or .mdb, .accdb driver. Small numbers such as 1.23E-15 are read ok using .mdb driver, but not .accdb driver. Latter returns E-15 instead.

Have tried database in 2000,2003,2007 format and .accdb driver always has same behaviour. May be able to get away using older driver, but would like to understand how to make the newer one work.

I'm using active state perl 5.10
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I'll need a script that probably wakes up & run a pre-set interval &
it check for any process that has hogged CPU for more than say,
10 seconds, it will renice or cpulimit the process.

I'm not sure how exactly to define "hogging CPU" :
can we do a difference say for the last 10 seconds, if a process
has taken up about 5 seconds of a processor execution time PLUS
from "top" it's taking up more than 80% of CPU, then the ...
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