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PING! <davidmac@texas.net>
Re: PING! <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Re: PING! <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Re: PING! <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Re: PING! <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: PPM has created a new dir. <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: pragma - The cgi is written in perl <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Privacy for slaves forced to use a proxy/firewall t <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Q: Net::FTP, Timeout doesn't seem to work <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: RTFM please! perldoc PSI::ESP (was Re: Validating (I R A Aggie)
Re: RTFM please! perldoc PSI::ESP (was Re: Validating <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Re: running outside program from perl script <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Stripping html tags within perl <jdf@pobox.com>
Re: Stripping html tags within perl <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Sys::Syslog (Marc Haber)
Re: Thank You comp.lang.perl.misc! <jonesy@rmi.nospam.net>
Re: Thank You comp.lang.perl.misc! <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: web-based newreader? <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Where can find bulletin or guestboard source? <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:15:27 -0500
From: David McMullen <davidmac@texas.net>
Subject: PING!
Message-Id: <370E5FDF.AD5EBA35@texas.net>
I need to ping servers within my perl script. How the heck can I make
perl know what I want?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:35:52 -0700
From: David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Subject: Re: PING!
Message-Id: <370E72B8.84C016E6@mail.cor.epa.gov>
David McMullen wrote:
>
> I need to ping servers within my perl script. How the heck can I make
> perl know what I want?
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
It's easier than you think. Just go to CPAN and download the
Net::Ping module. And viola!
HTH,
David
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 23:56:04 +0200
From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: PING!
Message-Id: <Pine.HPP.3.95a.990409235327.13091C-100000@hpplus01.cern.ch>
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Cassell wrote:
> It's easier than you think. Just go to CPAN and download the
> Net::Ping module. And viola!
^^^^ ^^^^^
Do you have to play it pizzicato?
;-)
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:29:26 -0700
From: David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Subject: Re: PING!
Message-Id: <370E7F46.4BC149CD@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Cassell wrote:
>
> > It's easier than you think. Just go to CPAN and download the
> > Net::Ping module. And viola!
> ^^^^ ^^^^^
>
> Do you have to play it pizzicato?
>
> ;-)
Yes, that time it was deliberate. Ahh.. the joys of torturing our
9th grade French teacher by mispronouncing easy words...
David
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 20:55:35 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: PING!
Message-Id: <7elpg7$1tq$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:15:27 -0500 David McMullen wrote:
> I need to ping servers within my perl script. How the heck can I make
> perl know what I want?
You speak to it gently, perhaps buy it a meal with some nice wine and then
you hit it with your evil desire:
use Net::Ping;
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 20:56:24 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: PPM has created a new dir.
Message-Id: <7elpho$1tt$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
In comp.lang.perl.misc Greg Griffiths <greg2@surfaid.org> wrote:
> I've just started using PPM to update my packages and have noted that it
> has created 3 new dir in my PERL directory :
>
> \html
> \htmlhelp
> \site
>
> what can I/ Should I do with them ?
Er nothing.
They're supposed to be there.
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 18:13:33 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: pragma - The cgi is written in perl
Message-Id: <7elg0d$1mv$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 01:47:16 -0400 JTJ wrote:
Subject: Re: pragma - The cgi is written in perl
> Egads
You could be writing your program in RPG/III,Scheme,APL or PL/I for all
the CGI cares - infact I'm not even sure that your question is about CGI
as much about the stupidities of different browsers ....
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 18:31:21 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Privacy for slaves forced to use a proxy/firewall to access the net?
Message-Id: <7elh1p$1n8$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
In comp.lang.perl.misc foj@nym.alias.net wrote:
>
<snip lunatic paranoid rant>
> If you want to debate whether a certain perl application or firewall use is
> ethical, at least have the courtesy of going to some other newsgroup ... don't
> you think ;-) .
>
I think you ought to go away.
<followups set>
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 20:07:45 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Q: Net::FTP, Timeout doesn't seem to work
Message-Id: <7elmmh$1nn$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
The deceased comp.lang.perl removed
In comp.lang.perl.misc Reine Helldin <herh@algonet.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> I realy have no ide what so ever what to do about your problem with FTP
> sorry.
> But the reason I joined this list
Just to be pedantic but this isnt a 'list' but a newsgroup ...
> was that I am thinking of writing a small
> perl scrip for to use on my home page, that would alowe me to download a
> file of my choose to my /home on the server and eventualy send it via FTP
> to my ftp server at home.
> Just to utilize the bandwith usage.
> No I might just ask you if you think this is possible?
>
Yes.
Use Net::FTP part of the libnet bundle available from CPAN.
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 21:52:51 GMT
From: fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: RTFM please! perldoc PSI::ESP (was Re: Validating Email addresses)
Message-Id: <slrn7gstqg.c53.fl_aggie@stat.fsu.edu>
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:15:46 GMT, Clinton Pierce
<cpierce1@ford.com>, in <370c253d.518582912@news.ford.com> wrote:
+ This is a perfect use for that PSI::ESP module again. In fact, this is
+ quoted as an example in the documentation. Please RTFM!
Has this been posted to CPAN? when I try to install it from the cpan
shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell), I get:
cpan> install PSI::ESP
Warning: Cannot install PSI::ESP, don't know what it is.
cpan> i /PSI::ESP/
No objects found of any type for argument /PSI::ESP/
Or is this soemthing that will be automatically installed on my system
thru something like PSI::INSTALL?
James
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:31:38 -0700
From: David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Subject: Re: RTFM please! perldoc PSI::ESP (was Re: Validating Email addresses)
Message-Id: <370E7FCA.2E38650D@mail.cor.epa.gov>
I R A Aggie wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:15:46 GMT, Clinton Pierce
> <cpierce1@ford.com>, in <370c253d.518582912@news.ford.com> wrote:
>
> + This is a perfect use for that PSI::ESP module again. In fact, this is
> + quoted as an example in the documentation. Please RTFM!
>
> Has this been posted to CPAN? when I try to install it from the cpan
> shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell), I get:
>
> cpan> install PSI::ESP
> Warning: Cannot install PSI::ESP, don't know what it is.
>
> cpan> i /PSI::ESP/
> No objects found of any type for argument /PSI::ESP/
>
> Or is this soemthing that will be automatically installed on my system
> thru something like PSI::INSTALL?
>
> James
Surely CPAN will now know when you actually need the module? :-)
David
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 19:48:35 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: running outside program from perl script
Message-Id: <7ellij$1ng$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:58:22 -0700 Stephanie Fox wrote:
>
> If I run this program from a DOS command line, it works great. The email is
> sent fine.
>
> However, if I call it from a web page, the html shows up fine, but the email
> message does not get sent, and I can't seem to find any errors anywhere.
>
Think permissions - ask your NT expert.
/J\
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Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:07:23 -0400
From: Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com>
To: David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
Subject: Re: Stripping html tags within perl
Message-Id: <m3soa936dg.fsf@joshua.panix.com>
David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov> writes:
> This is hard to do for the general case. Check out HTML::Parse and
> let it do the dirty work for you.
HTML::Parse is deprecated in favor of HTML::Parser.
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 21:12:39 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Stripping html tags within perl
Message-Id: <7elqg7$1ue$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:11:57 -0700 Neil Sandow wrote:
> s/<[^>]*>//g
> That was the one that did it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
>
Before you get to efusive with you thanks you might want to check out
perlfaq9 :
=head2 How do I remove HTML from a string?
Wherein there is a fuller description of the problem.
Oh BTW could you fix your newsreader so that item you are replying to
appears above your reply as is the norm here - I just cut out the quoted
stuff here but it generally considered easier to understand the context
if done like that.
/J\
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:27:24 GMT
From: Marc.Haber-usenet@gmx.de (Marc Haber)
Subject: Re: Sys::Syslog
Message-Id: <7elnrd$mr4$6@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
njc@dmc.uucp (Neil Cherry) wrote:
>On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:52:29 GMT, Marc Haber wrote:
>>Kozo <kozo@pobox.sk> wrote:
>>>perl is This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux
>>>from perl-5.004m4-1 on RH 5.2
>>
>>There are some rumours of a broken perl with certain RedHat versions.
>>This is known to affect majordomo.
>
>That would explain why it doesn't work on my RH system. Sounds like it
>may not be perl though as I rebuilt (fresh compile) and got the same
>thing.
Did you try the latest rpm from RedHat?
Greetings
Marc
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 20:13:59 GMT
From: Jonesy <jonesy@rmi.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Thank You comp.lang.perl.misc!
Message-Id: <7eln27$nel$1@news1.rmi.net>
Aaron Dickinson <adickinson@barr.com> wrote:
: Thank you all for being roll models for
: other programmers out on the Net...
Roll models!!??? They're called love handles!
Oh,
maybe role models - huh?
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 21:03:53 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Thank You comp.lang.perl.misc!
Message-Id: <7elpvp$1u3$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 09:36:29 -0700 Aaron Dickinson wrote:
> I posted a question about directory traversing on 4-8-99 and within just
> an hour I received several replies which should solve my problems, each
> in a different way.
I think you'd better hand over those peoples names and addresses they
obviously got in here by mistake.
> Thank you all for being roll models
Yes I'm particularly fond of those little items of patisserie that look
like Mother Theresa (rest her soul).
> for other
> programmers out on the Net... I wish everyone gave advice as freely and
> knowledgeable as you!
>
Look you cant go around saying things like that ... we're supposed to be
a bunch of hard-assed money grabbing bastards dont you know ?
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 22:53:00 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: web-based newreader?
Message-Id: <7em0cc$1vb$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:03:43 -0400 Jason wrote:
> The problem with DejaNews is that it wont let me read/post
> from MY news server.
>
I guesss then that you'll be looking at writing your own.
Net::NNTP
News::NNTPClient
CGI
Are the modules that would be of most help.
/J\
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Date: 9 Apr 1999 18:15:01 -0000
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Where can find bulletin or guestboard source?
Message-Id: <7elg35$1n2$1@gellyfish.btinternet.com>
On 9 Apr 1999 08:45:58 GMT 8717561 wrote:
> I hear many source codes are free in internet
>
> but i can't find them ,
>
> can anyone tell me where i can find them..
>
I'd go an use something like AltaVista to help me find what I wanted.
Why did you think that here was a good place to start looking ?
/J\
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