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Wed Feb 3 23:07:24 1999
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 99 20:00:16 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 3 Feb 1999 Volume: 8 Number: 4821
Today's topics:
Re: "glob"bing dot files <bmb@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
(JOBS) Perl positions in San Francisco <benjamin@qualisit.com>
Re: Accessing ASP objects from perl <xpaladin@ix.netcom.com>
Re: Array of Dates Prior to Today (Larry Rosler)
Re: Can't coerce array into hash (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: CGI::scrolling_list - how to order listbox items? <efflandt@xnet.com>
How create cookies for referral tracking? (Andri Bell [aka Andre Bell])
Re: HTML::TokeParser doesn't recognize Doctype (?) (Martien Verbruggen)
Re: Is perl a freeware? <bmb@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
Re: Newbie ? (Ronald J Kimball)
Pattern Matching Question <marks@webleicester.co.uk>
Re: Perl Criticism [summary] topmind@technologist.com
Re: Perl Criticism [summary] topmind@technologist.com
Re: Perl DLL paul@gina.net
Re: Soft reference question (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: web load testing code <rdbutler@mediaone.net>
Re: win32 perflib and processor statistics <cheetah@epix.net>
Special: Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 12 Dec 98 (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:50:22 -0500
From: Brad Baxter <bmb@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: "glob"bing dot files
Message-Id: <Pine.A41.4.02.9902032249410.52270-100000@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
Mr. Bill is trying to cure you of that.
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, James Ludlow wrote:
> Whoa! So perldoc wasn't kidding when it said, "expansions such as a
> shell would do." It just shows that I've been spending _way_ too much
> time with the MS-DOS prompt.
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Date: 03 Feb 1999 19:26:51 PST
From: "Benjamin Rosenthal" <benjamin@qualisit.com>
Subject: (JOBS) Perl positions in San Francisco
Message-Id: <79b41r$e5c@journal.concentric.net>
Have experience with Perl? Well then take advantage of your skills at this
great San Francisco internet startup!
Our client is a fast growing Internet company with a fun, energetic and
dynamic team environment. Funding
from premier venture capitalists!
You get in early - which means you create the future of the company - and
your compensation package
includes salary, equity and a professional benefits package (401K, health).
Interested? E-mail your resume to benjamin@qualisit.com
The following positions are available now:
Technical Support Engineer
The Technical Support Engineer is an integral member of the development
team. Their responsibilities include interpreting, reproducing and solving
technical support issues. Primarily, the TS Engineer will focus on customer
interaction - communicating and educating customers on the solution to their
problems. Secondarily, the TS Engineer will assist in the QA process by
identifying and reporting problems with pre-release Web applications.
Requirements include:
a.. BSCS or equivalent
b.. realistic understanding of HTML as interpreted by browsers
c.. realistic understanding of email formats as interpreted by email
programs
d.. experience using e-mail and list servers
e.. experience with CGI and scripting languages such as Perl or Python
f.. curiosity and perseverance in analyzing problems
g.. C and database experience is desirable but not necessary
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Unix & Database System Administrator
This position requires strong database expertise. The System Administrator
is instrumental in insuring our service performance. The SA responsibilities
would focus on the administration of a complex network of extremely high
capacity web servers and email delivery machines used to support our
millions of users.
Requirements include:
a.. deep experience with UNIX commands and utilities especially the
ability to develop reliable shell scripts
b.. SQL database administration
c.. strong interpersonal and problem solving skills
d.. relevant work experience
Very desirable skills include:
a.. Linux or FreeBSD administration.
b.. experience with Python or Perl
c.. experience in supporting 100% uptime systems
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Web Application Engineer
We are looking for extremely talented, motivated, Internet-savvy, fun to
work with, serious web engineers that will be responsible for rapidly
building and deploying robust, scalable Web applications for our client's
site.
Requirements include:
a.. BSCS/MSCS or equivalent
b.. realistic understanding of HTML as interpreted by browsers
c.. experience with CGI and scripting languages such as Perl or Python
d.. one year of experience in a UNIX development environment
e.. a proven track record for delivering quality projects on schedule
f.. must be able to take an idea and quickly run with it (with minimal
guidance.)
g.. portfolio of reference sites
h.. C and database experience is desirable but not necessary
Web Quality Assurance Engineer
As the company grows, more attention is necessary to the future releases of
our service. A strong Quality Assurance Engineer becomes more and more
important. Your responsibilities would include developing automated tests
to measure performance of the service, manage bug reports and coordinate
engineering's response to the problems.
Requirements include:
a.. experience in Unix and SQL
b.. experience in scripting languages such as Perl and Python
c.. experience in e-mail group systems
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:38:16 -0500
From: Nelson Spessard <xpaladin@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing ASP objects from perl
Message-Id: <36B90817.E5A68746@ix.netcom.com>
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Thanks for the info.
<p>Nelson
<p>Matt Sergeant wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>spessard@orionsci.com wrote:
<br>>
<br>> I am trying to access some of the built in asp objects from perl.
Makely the
<br>> session, request, and server objects. Is there a way to access
these objects
<br>> from perl 5.0? I am trying to do a systems integration using
some of this
<br>> technology. And no I can not get the client to change web servers
and
<br>> rewriting half the code is also not an option.
<p>You can't access the objects from ordinary perl CGI's, but you can write
<br>ASP code in Perl. Download ActivePerl from www.activestate.com and
read
<br>the introduction (actually it's more of a reference) on my web site.
<p>--
<br><Matt email="msergeant@ndirect.co.uk" />
<p>| Fastnet Software Ltd
| Perl in Active Server Pages |
<br>| Perl Consultancy, Web Development | Database Design
| XML |
<br>| <a href="http://come.to/fastnet">http://come.to/fastnet</a>
| Information Consolidation |</blockquote>
</html>
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 19:06:35 -0800
From: lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
Subject: Re: Array of Dates Prior to Today
Message-Id: <MPG.1122ae96ed198bea989a00@nntp.hpl.hp.com>
In article <39k8xzdla1.fsf@ibnets.com> on 03 Feb 1999 20:12:38 -0500,
Uri Guttman <uri@ibnets.com> says...
...
> mjt's objection is that is this call occurs during the DST hour of
> 2am it could break.
>
> but using a date module would be more accurate in all cases.
Why? How could it possibly be? Perhaps in North America, but the rest
of the world has different summer-time transitions and rules.
--
(Just Another Larry) Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Company
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:01:13 -0500
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Can't coerce array into hash
Message-Id: <1dmo6ga.19f9wugzo15boN@bay3-102.quincy.ziplink.net>
Bill Moseley <moseley@best.com> wrote:
> > > [Tue Feb 2 20:53:20 1999] admin5.cgi: Can't coerce array into hash
> > > at (eval 23) line 23.
> > ^^^^ ^^
> > The error is not happening at the line you excerpt below. It's
> > happening in some eval()ed code.
>
> I don't have a single eval in admin5.cgi. Maybe in another module, but
> line 23 in admin5.cgi is right in the middle of a =head1...=cut comment
> section. And as I reported, commenting out that one single line, or
> replacing it with the examples I showed made the error go away.
As Joshua said, line 23 in admin5.cgi is irrelevant. This error message
clearly reports that the error is happening in an eval, not in your main
script. Considering your code, I would say it is very likely that this
eval is somewhere in the CGI module.
> {\$Query->popup_menu(-name=>'location',
> -default=>$rec->{'location'},
> -values=>$Location_Rec->{'-VALUES'},
> -labels=>$Location_Rec->{'-LABELS'},
> )}
Did you read CGI.pm's documentation on the popup_menu function?
4. The optional fourth parameter (-labels) is provided for people who
want to use different values for the user-visible label inside the
popup menu nd the value returned to your script. It's a pointer to
an associative array relating menu values to user-visible labels.
If you leave this parameter blank, the menu values will be
displayed by default. (You can also leave a label undefined if you
want to).
This says that the fourth paremeter (-labels) should be a pointer
(reference) to an *associative array (hash)*. You are passing it a
reference to a regular array. Hence the error message.
--
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"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 03:38:11 GMT
From: David Efflandt <efflandt@xnet.com>
Subject: Re: CGI::scrolling_list - how to order listbox items?
Message-Id: <19990204.3381100@efflandt.xnet.com>
On 2/3/99, 7:15:32 PM, Jeremy@Malcolm.wattle.id.au wrote regarding=20
CGI::scrolling_list - how to order listbox items?:
> I have a hash callsed %aliases which contains basically the keys and=20
values
> from a sendmail aliases file. I want to stick the keys (ie. aliases) =
in a
> listbox, with the email addresses as the values for the list items. I=
=20
am
> using the CGI module and I am invoking scrolling_list like this:
> print scrolling_list (
> -NAME =3D> "selected_aliases",
> -LABELS =3D> \%aliases,
> -VALUES =3D> [ keys %aliases ],
> -SIZE =3D> 10,
> -MULTIPLE =3D> 1,
> )
> My problem is that I can't sort the hash by its keys (because hashes=20
can't be
> sorted), and I don't think I can create a sorted array out of the keys=
=20
of the
> hash and use that instead, because that would mess up the correlation =
between
> labels and values in the listbox.
> Is there a way to do what I want?
You can sort a hash by its keys. There is an example on page 100 of=20
"Programming Perl" and likely somewhere in the perldocs. But if you=20
do that more than once, you might want to make a list of the keys,=20
sort that and use that as a reference in a foreach loop to access each=20
hash value.
In your example, it is easy to sort each unique alias as key and user=20
as value, but if you want to have the user as a key, you would need a=20
hash of lists where the key is the user and the value is a list of=20
aliases.
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 01:51:33 GMT
From: cookies@ONE-CLICK.COM (Andri Bell [aka Andre Bell])
Subject: How create cookies for referral tracking?
Message-Id: <79b5l1$6dj@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>
How create cookies for referral tracking?
Do you have experience or know someone who has experience installing cookies
for referral tracking purposes?
I've been using cookies with great success and now the cookies refuse to work
properly on one domain I've tried installing to :(
So far I've only tested the cookie solutions found at
http://www.virtualpromote.com:
VirtualPROMOTE Gazette - Issue #49 (xssi cookies)
VirtualPROMOTE Gazette - Issue #53 (asp cookies)
VirtualPROMOTE Gazette - Issue #46 (ssi cookies)
VirtualPROMOTE Gazette - Issue #45 (cookies placed within the html page)
...and still no success.
The wierd things that happen are 1) the cookies are placed on my browser when
I visit but not retrieved when the order form is submitted. 2) The cookie
"remembers" the last person who visited the site before me and sends their
data to the browser as the referrer instead of the current referer.
I know this is supposed to be impossible since cookies are client-side apps,
but that's what seems to be happening. :( If you were to place an order it
would say you were referred by whichever referre was used before you visited
and the referrer you should give credit to would go to whoever visits after
you. This is a real mess!
If you know of a great resource for creating cookies or fixing existing
cookies please contact me, I may be too close to the forest to see the trees.
Thanks!
Andre'
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 03:04:20 GMT
From: mgjv@comdyn.com.au (Martien Verbruggen)
Subject: Re: HTML::TokeParser doesn't recognize Doctype (?)
Message-Id: <U68u2.117$_E3.7898@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net>
In article <79asgq$aod$1@client2.news.psi.net>,
abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) writes:
> Marc-A. Woog (mwoog@pobox.ch) wrote on MCMLXXXII September MCMXCIII in
> <URL:news:36b83695.10530699@news.datacomm.ch>:
> !!
> !! I've build an HTML Beautifier which seems to work quit nicely except
> !! for one small problem: HTML::TokeParser does seem to recognize
> !! DocTypes as comments.
>
> And it doesn't recognize them as oranges either.
does, not doesn't (as comments, that is).
> Document types are document types. They are not comments.
which was exactly the point of the original poster :)
I was confused too by the particular use of 'does seem' instead of
just 'seems' there.
MArtien
--
Martien Verbruggen |
Interactive Media Division | I'm desperately trying to figure out
Commercial Dynamics Pty. Ltd. | why kamikaze pilots wore helmets - Dave
NSW, Australia | Edison
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:57:50 -0500
From: Brad Baxter <bmb@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Is perl a freeware?
Message-Id: <Pine.A41.4.02.9902032257090.52270-100000@ginger.libs.uga.edu>
I guess that's the end of this thread. :-)
On 4 Feb 1999, Ed Hitler wrote:
> Do I need a computer to run perl?
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:01:14 -0500
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Newbie ?
Message-Id: <1dmo71e.12z9olk1x848owN@bay3-102.quincy.ziplink.net>
<dmeilinger@cng.dl.nec.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a string match to change the case of an input string, i.e.
> change an occurance of 'KEY' to 'key' or vice versa. I don't want to match
> any case (/i) but want to substitute an upper case letter for its lower, etc.
All the solutions so far only tell you how to get lowercase or
uppercase, not how to change the case. So...
tr/a-zA-Z/A-Za-z/;
I don't know that this will respect locale, though, whereas lc() et al.
will.
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"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:08:48 +0000
From: Mark Simonetti <marks@webleicester.co.uk>
Subject: Pattern Matching Question
Message-Id: <36B82E40.628F8AFC@webleicester.co.uk>
Okay, I'm being lazy.. Basically, I need to convert my search engine
from doing OR matches, to AND matches..
At the minute, when a user enters a search string, the spaces are
replaced with vertical bars, for or'ing.. so when it pattern matches, it
finds entries that contain 1 or more words in the string..
I want to change it to AND, but why can i do this
=~ /firstword|secondword|thirdword/
but not this ?
=~ /firstword&secondword&thirdword/
I could easily code it so that I just match each word seperately, its
just far nicer/easier if I could just pattern match it in one go, like
I do currently with or's !
Anyone got any ideas ?
Using .* isnt satisfactory, because then surely the words have to be in
the same order...
=~ /firstword.*secondword.*thirdword/ <=== this may be incorrect of my
meaning, but .. u know what I mean ;)
In that case, the actual entry would have to be:
firstword ....... secondword ... thirdword
and
secondword..firstword..
wouldnt match.. but they need too !
Mark.
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 01:51:33 GMT
From: topmind@technologist.com
Subject: Re: Perl Criticism [summary]
Message-Id: <79auf2$eo2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <36B8BC3E.8E1E2087@perspex.com>,
Tripp Lilley <tripp.lilley@perspex.com> wrote:
> topmind@technologist.com wrote:
>
> > Thank heavens for Wallmarts!
> ^^^^
>
> Good /heavens/! Can you /imagine/? A Wal-Mart Super Store sized panoply
> of Perl goodies! I'm about to wet myself over that concept :-)
>
> Oh, I suppose you meant Wal-Mart. <sigh>. You know, things would go much
> easier around here if you'd show a little discipline in your ramblings.
>
Now neither my spell checker nor paper-carcas dictionary
has "Wal-mart" in it. You cannot fault me for that (unless
you expect me to go web surfing everytime I type an
insult that is not in my dictionary.)
"disciplined ramblings" Hmmmm. It almost strikes me
as an oxymoron.
(I will correct my spelling in general when they build
a decent one into the browser. Spell checking now slows
me down 25%~ because of all the copy and pasting I have
to do. I would rather spend that time to produce 25% more
insults. I did the math :-)
-tmind-
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6888/
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 01:56:14 GMT
From: topmind@technologist.com
Subject: Re: Perl Criticism [summary]
Message-Id: <79aunp$et2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <oln997.rk.ln@magna.metronet.com>,
tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan) wrote:
> birgitt@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> : Please, can you tell me what a thread ends with ?
>
> It is _supposed_ to end whenever 'Hitler' is mentioned.
>
> It isn't working properly here...
I keep tellin' ya boys. I mentioned Elvis and
Elvis cancels out Hitler. Didn't you ever
play "rocks, scissors, Elvis, Hitler" in
grade school? (doring speling klass.)
>
> --
> Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
> tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
> Fort Worth, Texas
>
-tipsymind- > hickup! <
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 02:34:45 GMT
From: paul@gina.net
Subject: Re: Perl DLL
Message-Id: <79b105$grm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <78q8os$9u81@innsrv.ismd.ups.com>,
"Douglas N. Craig" <dcraig@ismd.ups.com> wrote:
> You can make a Perl executable, can you make a Perl DLL which would export
> the subroutines defined in it so that another application may load it?
>
> More specifically, we are creating SQL calls to an Access database.which are
> made using ODBC in Perl. These calls will be contained in a Perl file which
> will act as an interface to our database. We have a seperate program which
> can load an external DLL and use it's exported functions. We hope to utilize
> the Perl interface from this application to access our database.
>
> Has this ever been tried before? Is it worth trying?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Doug
>
>
Is it woth doing? That depends on why you are doing it.
If the answer is for speed, I would suggest using a different driver than the
generic ODBC, Postgres is the one I think mates up to an SQL server. This is
much faster than the generic ODBC.
Is the program that is calling this written in perl? If not what? If C you
could really just embed this perl code in the C code quite easily. This is
pretty well documented in quite a few Oreilly books. If it is something else,
I have done the lowly way of running command line executeables from within my
perl programs when I was lazy (using qx and then a command line). This is
usually a quick hack for the proof of concept.
Just my .02
email me if you would like, I have done quite a bit of work with perl and
databases.
-Paul Vining
paul@gina.net
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:01:15 -0500
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Soft reference question
Message-Id: <1dmo7fa.19rrzce1t4f1m0N@bay3-102.quincy.ziplink.net>
Lou Hevly <lou@visca.com> wrote:
> Ala Qumsieh <aqumsieh@matrox.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> open (UPLOAD, ">$updir") or die $!;
> >> my ($Buffer);
> >> while (read($upload,$Buffer,8192)) {
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Your bug is here .. the first argument for read is a filehandle. You
> >are using a variable. Although it is possible to use a variable as a
> >filehandle, strict will not allow you to do that. Anyway, your script
> >does not work even if you don't use strict because the read will fail.
>
> I hate to contradict someone who knows more than I'll probably ever
> know about Perl, but the fact is the script does work.
Ala is not familiar with CGI.pm's handling of file upload fields.
CGI.pm's documentation states "The filename returned is also a file
handle." In other words, the first argument you are using in read()
*is* a filehandle, which is why your code works fine.
Note that until 5 minutes ago, I was not familiar with CGI.pm's handling
of file upload fields either. I found Ala's argument convincing until I
searched the CGI.pm documentation for 'upload'. :-)
> Can you think of any other way to do an upload of this type? For now
> I'm doing:
> no strict 'refs';
> while (read($file,$buffer,8192)) {
> print UPLOAD $buffer;
> }
> use strict;
Based on CGI.pm's documentation on handling file upload fields, I
believe this is almost the right way to do it.
What you really want, however, is to just turn off strict refs in a
block:
{
no strict 'refs';
while (read($file,$buffer,8192)) {
print UPLOAD $buffer;
}
}
Then, when the block is over, strict automatically goes back to whatever
it was before.
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:00:57 -0500
From: "Rob Butler" <rdbutler@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: web load testing code
Message-Id: <rQ8u2.5308$EF.8128831@lwnws01.ne.mediaone.net>
Martin Vorlaender wrote in message
<36b7e5c9.524144494f47414741@radiogaga.harz.de>...
>Tom Bates (ctbates@tva.gov) wrote:
>: Is anyone aware of any published perl code or modules out there for load
>: testing a web server?
>
>Not Perl, but anyway: for Win32, there's a tool called Socrates.
>Can't remember where I got it, though.
Hello all
Just checkin out the perl newsgroup and I thought I would lend a hand.
You can get Socrates from
http://davecentral.com/3978.html
It's freeware. Never used it. Never knew it existed till I read the above
post on this newsgroup. I took 3 seconds to find it and think I will use it
in the future to test out some of my web applications. Thought I could save
someone else the 3 seconds. Course, you've probably taken longer to read
this message haven't you! hehe oh well!
Later
rob
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:37:38 -0500
From: "Jeff Beitzel" <cheetah@epix.net>
Subject: Re: win32 perflib and processor statistics
Message-Id: <79b13v$a1g$1@news1.epix.net>
Thanks for the direction, although I am still confused on how to turn the
results into meaningful numbers...
Jeff
David Richards wrote in message
<01be4e8e$c18e3ec0$55a0479c@UKMCPHISFW051.ukmcph.zeneca.com>...
>Jeff
>
>Have a look at COUNTERS.HLP (counter types) in the NTRESKIT\CNTRTOOL
>installation.
>
>David
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article to perl-users@ruby.oce.orst.edu.
To submit articles to comp.lang.perl.announce, send your article to
clpa@perl.com.
To request back copies (available for a week or so), send your request
to almanac@ruby.oce.orst.edu with the command "send perl-users x.y",
where x is the volume number and y is the issue number.
The Meta-FAQ, an article containing information about the FAQ, is
available by requesting "send perl-users meta-faq". The real FAQ, as it
appeared last in the newsgroup, can be retrieved with the request "send
perl-users FAQ". Due to their sizes, neither the Meta-FAQ nor the FAQ
are included in the digest.
The "mini-FAQ", which is an updated version of the Meta-FAQ, is
available by requesting "send perl-users mini-faq". It appears twice
weekly in the group, but is not distributed in the digest.
For other requests pertaining to the digest, send mail to
perl-users-request@ruby.oce.orst.edu. Do not waste your time or mine
sending perl questions to the -request address, I don't have time to
answer them even if I did know the answer.
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