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Tue Jun 22 12:07:21 1999
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 99 09:01:33 -0700
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Perl-Users Digest Tue, 22 Jun 1999 Volume: 8 Number: 6092
Today's topics:
Re: HOW DO I PAD A STRING IN PERL?? (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
How many questions about localtime? <matt.sergeant@ericsson.com>
Re: How many questions about localtime? <dave@dave.org.uk>
Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter? (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter? (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter? (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter? (Larry Rosler)
Re: linux passwords <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Re: Locking and renameing files from a script <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Re: Need help with #exec cgi (brian d foy)
Newbie - Perl books - which to get? <rmn@itol.com>
Re: Newbie:VBQ (Very Basic Question) <aqumsieh@matrox.com>
Re: Perl Compiling, executables, and integration with C <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Q: Evaluating a Perl string as a command in C (which ma <bruce.adams@rmc-ltd.com>
Re: reading current url from buffer ? <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Re: Recursive Delete (Abigail)
require libs johnstonk@my-deja.com
Re: require libs <dave@dave.org.uk>
Re: require libs <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Re: Strip off file name by s/\\(.*)$// does not work (Bart Lateur)
Re: Sub Routines Question, Parameters <crt@highvision.com>
Re: VBScript vs PerlScript <matt.sergeant@ericsson.com>
Re: XS question: problem with adv. perl example <rootbeer@redcat.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:10:15 GMT
From: nospam.newton@gmx.net (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Subject: Re: HOW DO I PAD A STRING IN PERL??
Message-Id: <376f7dd4.101614872@news.nikoma.de>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:24:12 GMT, dave@dave.org.uk (Dave Cross) wrote:
>Alternatively, open the ActivePerl docs in your browser and find the
>link for perlfaq. When this document opens in the right hand frame, do
>whatever you need to do in your browser to get it in a frame by
>itself. Now edit the location to open perlfaq4 rather than perlfaq and
>you'll (hopefully) see that it *is* on your sytem - just very
>effectively hidden.
I read my docs with perldoc thankyewverymuch -- don't want to fire up
a walloping big browser just to go through the docs, and especially
because I can't easily do perldoc -f with it :). `perldoc perlfaq4`
gives me perlfaq4; it's not the FAQ that's hidden, it's just that this
item isn't in my version of perlfaq4.
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.net>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:11:18 +0100
From: Matt Sergeant <matt.sergeant@ericsson.com>
Subject: How many questions about localtime?
Message-Id: <376FA796.6097C11C@ericsson.com>
How many questions about the return values of localtime() does it take
before one goes mad reading this ng?
Answers on a postcard.
Matt.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:40:38 +0100
From: Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>
Subject: Re: How many questions about localtime?
Message-Id: <376FAE76.D7F4C713@dave.org.uk>
Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> How many questions about the return values of localtime() does it take
> before one goes mad reading this ng?
I don't know, how many questions about the return values of localtime()
*does* it take before one goes mad reading this ng?
Dave...
(waiting patiently for the punchline)
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:10:16 GMT
From: nospam.newton@gmx.net (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Subject: Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter?
Message-Id: <376f7ed4.101870455@news.nikoma.de>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:06:57 +0200, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Bart Lateur wrote:
>
>> But yes. Windows uses a superset of ISO-Latin-1, AKA "Ansi",
>
>Sure, we all know that...
>
>> which is the same as most Unices use.
>
>I don't agree. The unix variants that I've ever used were based on
>either DEC Multinational or iso-8859-1. None of them had displayable
>characters in the 128-159 range.
Erm, I think Bart meant "Windows uses a superset of [ISO-Latin-1,
which is the same as most Unices use]" rather than "Windows uses [a
superset of ISO-Latin1, which is the same as most Unices use]". This
sounds sensible to me. (NB ISO-Latin-1 == ISO-8859-1)
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.net>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:10:17 GMT
From: nospam.newton@gmx.net (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Subject: Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter?
Message-Id: <376f7f46.101984659@news.nikoma.de>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:37:28 +0200, "Alan J. Flavell"
<flavell@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>CP850 for Western European locale).
Though I much prefer CP437 as it has all the extra letters I need for
German *and* the line-drawing characters used extensively by
(American) DOS programs; all the single-line-meets-double-line
characters look awful in CP850 as they turn into accented letters.
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.net>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:10:18 GMT
From: nospam.newton@gmx.net (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton)
Subject: Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter?
Message-Id: <376f7fc5.102111556@news.nikoma.de>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:42:14 GMT, bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
wrote:
> 137 promille ????
How about o/oo ?
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.net>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:33:47 -0700
From: lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
Subject: Re: Interpreting MS-ASCII - anyone have a filter?
Message-Id: <MPG.11d94cadced59426989c1a@nntp.hpl.hp.com>
[Posted and a courtesy copy sent.]
In article <376f9a38@cs.colorado.edu> on 22 Jun 1999 08:14:16 -0700, Tom
Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> says...
...
> # De-moron-ise Illegal Text and HTML from Microsoft Applications
> #
> # by John Walker -- January 1998
> # http://www.fourmilab.ch/
> # revised by Larry Rosler -- May 1999
> # http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
...
> # Map strategically incompatible non-ISO characters in the
> # range 0x82 -- 0x9F into plausible substitutes where
> # possible.
...
> "\x91" => '`',
> "\x92" => "'",
Having just used this program on some Redmondware output, I would now
change that one to '´', to match the backtick "\x91" better. Some
of the others might use some more thought too. I didn't look into the
substitutions when I massaged the program.
...
> --
> What I tell you three times is true.
How come no attribution in your quotations file???
``Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell three times is true.''
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark
--
(Just Another Larry) Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:46:50 -0700
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Subject: Re: linux passwords
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9906220846000.1698-100000@user2.teleport.com>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, David Stringer wrote:
> I would like to change Linux user passwords in a Perl script, what
> would be the easiest way of doing this?
Rewriting the /etc/passwd file. See the docs, FAQs, and newsgroups
about Linux and the passwd file for more information. Cheers!
--
Tom Phoenix Perl Training and Hacking Esperanto
Randal Schwartz Case: http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:22:11 -0700
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Subject: Re: Locking and renameing files from a script
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9906220818000.1698-100000@user2.teleport.com>
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 vitanut@my-deja.com wrote:
> I would like to know how I can, from a script, lock a file, move it to
> a new directory, then unlock that file. I have tried to use the
> functions flock and rename, but I am not sure how to use them.
The problem here is that you could be accidentally overwriting the
destination file as you rename. :-( What I'd recommend is that you make
an auxiliary file which is the "renaming pumpkin". All cooperative
processes must get an exclusive lock on, say /somewhere/.pumpkin before
doing any renaming. Of course, once you have the lock, you should probably
verify that there's no file with the destination name.
See the perlfunc and perlfaq5 manpages for more information on using
flock and rename.
Cheers!
--
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:11:13 -0400
From: brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
Subject: Re: Need help with #exec cgi
Message-Id: <brian-ya02408000R2206991111130001@news.panix.com>
In article <ChEb3.453$M46.3440@newsfeed.slurp.net>, "Dimensions" <dimensions@dialaccess.com> posted:
> I am running a "exec cgi" (SSI) as:
>
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi"-->
>
> I have not being able to get it to work with parameters such as:
>
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?mydata1"-->
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?mydata2"-->
> etc...
>
> Can this type of script take them? What am I missing?
reading the documentation? it specifically says you can't do
that and explains why. there are certain servers that allow it to
happen at the cost of stomping all over important data.
--
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:50:48 -0500
From: Rhonda Nowak <rmn@itol.com>
Subject: Newbie - Perl books - which to get?
Message-Id: <376FB0D7.643584DE@itol.com>
Hi All,
I looked on Amazon for Perl books and found quite a few. I would like
to order a couple. Here is my narrowed list:
Beginner Level -
Learning Perl (2nd Edition) - Randal L. Schwartz
Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days - David Till
Advanced Level -
Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl - Joseph
N. Hall
Programming Perl (2nd Edition) - Larry Wall
Perl: The Programmer's Companion - Nigel Chapman
I read reviews on Amazon, but would like to hear from anyone who
knows/has heard of these books. Please help me decide which would be
best for me (beginner) and our more experienced Perl programmer.
Thanks much,
Rhonda
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:09:59 -0400
From: Ala Qumsieh <aqumsieh@matrox.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie:VBQ (Very Basic Question)
Message-Id: <x3ywvwwcrfc.fsf@tigre.matrox.com>
"Jody Fedor" <JFedor@datacom-css.com> writes:
> Stuart, Xinlu and Niuniu wrote in message <376F11C8.9F7F0DED@tu.infi.net>...
> >I just purchased a book "Perl 5 By Example" that came with perl5 on a
> >cd. I installed it, it appears to be working. I typed print("blah blah
> >blah ,\n"); in notepad and named it test.pl
[snip]
> Stuart,
> How do you know it works if you can't get your program to work?
> Perl 5 by Example doesn't say to use ( in a print statement.
> try using: print "blah blah blah\n";
Useless advice since print() can take parentheses.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:52:56 -0700
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Subject: Re: Perl Compiling, executables, and integration with C/C++
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9906220849270.1698-100000@user2.teleport.com>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Jonathan J Mayes wrote:
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl, comp.lang.perl.misc
If your news administrator still carries comp.lang.perl, please let him
or her know that that newsgroup has not existed since 1995. If you
have such an outdated newsgroup listing, you are probably missing out
on many other valid newsgroups as well. You'll be doing yourself and
many others a favor to use only comp.lang.perl.misc (and other valid
Perl newsgroups) instead.
> I'm putting together a little memo for my boss concerning perl
> compiling, perl executables,etc. I'm having a hard time finding
> anything in the FAQ's or the general web dealing with these topics.
Check the Perl docs (including the FAQs again). I'm sure there's something
in there. Cheers!
--
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Randal Schwartz Case: http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:10:18 +0100
From: "Bruce S. O. Adams" <bruce.adams@rmc-ltd.com>
Subject: Q: Evaluating a Perl string as a command in C (which man pages?)
Message-Id: <376FA75A.9AB99866@rmc-ltd.com>
Hi,
I am a relative newbie to the innards of perl (coming from a TCL
background). I have three
questions.
1) What is the correct way to evaluate a perl command from C.
Looking at the perlembed & perlcall man pages is only partly
helpful.
If I have a line of text as follows
<some text>
The most suitable calling mechanism would appear to be
perl_call_argv(CommandName,Flags,Arguments);
Where the string has first been disected into a command
and a char** array of arguments. The string can be disected
partly using strtok for example but this will fail for the
following:
print 'hello world from perl'
strtok gives:
print
'hello
world
from
perl'
Clearly I need to be using perls internal perl parser. In TCL and
Python there
is an eval command that performs both jobs for me:
Tcl_Eval("puts \"hello world from TCL\");
PyRun_SimpleString("hello=\"hello world from Python\"");
PyRun_SimpleString("print hello");
What is the equivalent in Perl?
2. When running perl_call_argv with the command "print" and a single
argument
"'hello world from perl'". I get the error message:
Global symbol "print" requires explicit package name.
What is happening here. If I do the same thing in a script form
on a similarly initialised interpreter (as in the miniperl.c example)
everything
works fine. What am I doing wrong.
3. Where on earth does the redefinition of main with the extra
char** env argument come from? Why is it necessary?
(I'm sure this is in the docs somewhere but I couldn't find it)
If possible I would prefer replies to be duplicated by Email. Thanks in
adavance,
Regards,
Bruce A.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:45:09 -0700
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Subject: Re: reading current url from buffer ?
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9906220843390.1698-100000@user2.teleport.com>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, raskal wrote:
> I want to write a little program in perl that shows me the current URL
This sounds like a CGI programming question. If what you want is available
through the environment variables, it should be documented. Check the
docs, FAQs, and newsgroups about CGI programming. Cheers!
--
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Randal Schwartz Case: http://www.rahul.net/jeffrey/ovs/
------------------------------
Date: 22 Jun 1999 09:29:36 -0500
From: abigail@delanet.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Recursive Delete
Message-Id: <slrn7mv7e8.k1b.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>
Joe (Joa@inc.com) wrote on MMCXXI September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:Joa-2106991944460001@haines-du-01-07.seaknet-dom.alaska.edu>:
-- Hello,
--
-- Is there a good way to recursively delete a subdirectory and all of its
-- subdirectories? I've attempted to do this with the following code, but it
-- doesn't work, instead reporting an error. (The deepest subdirectory is
-- reported to not be a file or folder.)
--
-- ##########
-- # Recursively delete subdirectory
-- #
-- sub delete_directory {
-- opendir(DIRECTORY, "$_[0]") or &error_die('Unable to delete directory',
-- "(<B>$_[0]</B>)",
Why do you quote $_[0] ?
-- "Be sure \$pathtohtml is set correctly in the file \"openpage.cfg\".");
-- @directories = grep !/\./, readdir DIRECTORY; # list only the directories
That's wrong, unless all files and no directories contain a period,
which is a scary assumption. Why not
@directories = grep {-d && !/^\.\.?$/} readdir DIRECTORY; ?
-- unless (@directories eq "") {
Eh? An array in scalar context evaluates to a _number_ (the number of
elements), so this test is always false.
-- foreach $directory (@directories) {delete_directory ($_[0]/$directory);}
Why do you divide $_[0] by $directory?
-- }
-- @files = readdir DIRECTORY; # list everything, should only be files now.
Wrong. "." and ".." are still there.
-- unlink @files;
What if the unlink fails? Where's the test of the return code?
-- rmdir $_[0] or &error_die('Unable to delete directory', "(<B>$_[0]</B>)",
-- "Be sure \$pathtohtml is set correctly in the file \"openpage.cfg\".");
-- }
BTW, are you sure there isn't a module on CPAN that does a recursive delete?
Abigail
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:00:49 GMT
From: johnstonk@my-deja.com
Subject: require libs
Message-Id: <7ko4u9$9i3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
newbie question -
I am trying to run a Selena Sol forms
processing cgi script supposedly revised for NT
that has the statement:
require "cgi-lib.pl"; amongst other libs.
By debugging I've found that the script fails upon
trying to load the library (written by Steve
Brenner). Is this a server config issue or what?
THX for your help!!!
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:38:25 +0100
From: Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>
Subject: Re: require libs
Message-Id: <376FADF1.6872DC9F@dave.org.uk>
johnstonk@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> newbie question -
> I am trying to run a Selena Sol forms
> processing cgi script supposedly revised for NT
> that has the statement:
> require "cgi-lib.pl"; amongst other libs.
> By debugging I've found that the script fails upon
> trying to load the library (written by Steve
> Brenner). Is this a server config issue or what?
> THX for your help!!!
I means you don't have cgi-lib.pl installed. It's not a standard part of
Perl. You're better off using a script that uses CGI.pm instead - not
least because CGI.pm comes with Perl.
hth,
Dave...
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Date: 22 Jun 1999 09:47:52 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: require libs
Message-Id: <376fb028@cs.colorado.edu>
[courtesy cc of this posting mailed to cited author]
In comp.lang.perl.misc,
johnstonk@my-deja.com writes:
:I am trying to run a Selena Sol forms
:processing cgi script supposedly revised for NT
mistake #1.
:that has the statement:
:require "cgi-lib.pl"; amongst other libs.
mistake #2.
:By debugging I've found that the script fails upon
:trying to load the library (written by Steve
:Brenner). Is this a server config issue or what?
:THX for your help!!!
use CGI; # standard module included with Perl
--tom
--
"His super power is to turn into a scotch terrier."
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:23:06 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Strip off file name by s/\\(.*)$// does not work
Message-Id: <3773a911.7303377@news.skynet.be>
Franz GEIGER wrote:
>I thought "s/\\(.*)$//" would do it. I read this as "find a backslash
>followed by zero or more characters, but begin searching from the end of the
>string".
Nope. Match the first backslash and everything (anything) following it,
up to the end.
>But other than expected "C:\dirname\filename.ext" is converted into "C:"
Yup. I expected that.
You may try excluding backslashes from your "anything".
s/\\[^\\]+$//;
Or, you may try matching everything up to the last backslash, which will
exclude the file's basename.
($dir) = /(.*)\\/;
In fact, you can get both directory and basename:
($dir,$base) = /(.*)\\(.*)/;
Thanks to greediness of the left match, the backslash matched will be
the very last one in the string.
Finally: Perl on PC's accepts a forward slash as a valid path separator
too. Try opening "C:/dirname/filename.ext" and it will work just as
well. Therefore, it is safer to replace "\\" in the above regexes with
"[\\\/]", so that anything, backslash or forward slash is accepted. And
probably you should throw in ":" too, for filenames like
"c:somefile.txt"
HTH,
Bart.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:58:32 GMT
From: Casey Tweten <crt@highvision.com>
Subject: Re: Sub Routines Question, Parameters
Message-Id: <7ko8ag$avl$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <7ko4fm$1m9@catapult.gatech.edu>,
Franklin Edward Sadler <gte482i@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> If this is they way do u have to do anything in the sub routine to
> take in
> these variables? Any help would be appreciated.
nope
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:04:21 +0100
From: Matt Sergeant <matt.sergeant@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: VBScript vs PerlScript
Message-Id: <376FA5F5.59E31FDC@ericsson.com>
Larry Rosler wrote:
>
> I've never seen a line of PerlScript before, nor do I know what 'it does
> not seem to work' means to you.
Not to be rude, but why answer then?
> But as it seems to resemble (archaic)
> Perl, the missing semicolon must have something to do with it.
>
> For that matter, why not just use this:
>
> sub MSCSExecute { 1 }
The poster is trying to create a callback function, which under an
Active Scripting Environment should be implicitly called when an even
occurs. It's supposed to be like Perl Tk events, only you don't
explicitly register them.
I'm not sure how to get it to work though. I think there is a way - try
searching the Activestate list archives for "PerlScript OLE Events" or
something like that.
Matt.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:23:37 -0700
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
Subject: Re: XS question: problem with adv. perl example
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9906220823040.1698-100000@user2.teleport.com>
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 kellan1@my-deja.com wrote:
> Having setup the c source, and the Makefile.PL, and having 'make'ed, and
> 'make install'ed the module with no apparent difficulty,
Did you 'make test'? That's a good idea before 'make install'. Cheers!
--
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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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