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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 186 Volume: 9
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Mon Jul 19 01:07:17 1999
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:05:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Sun, 18 Jul 1999 Volume: 9 Number: 186
Today's topics:
$_ question (restated concisely) <derek_sherlock@hp.com>
--Help Wanted <bob@tokensystems.com>
3D modeling with Perl? <kj0@mailcity.com>
Re: [Q] Can sendmail be used for attachments? <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Re: Accessing a MS Access Database <c8133594@comp.polyu.edu.hk>
Re: Anybody know how to to this? (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: CGI::Fast vs. Apache paul@pault.com
Re: Full path to file justinchaffey@my-deja.com
Re: Full path to file (Steven Smolinski)
Re: HHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!! <rick.delaney@home.com>
Re: Http 500 Error running CGI scripts on PWS 4.0 [win9 (Larry Rosler)
Re: Local CGI with ActivePerl <kmsproule@worldnet.att.net>
Re: MS Access ODBC Truncates <matt@mail.tca.net>
Re: newbie needs help! <gilmanb@vuser.union.edu>
newbie question (Patrick)
Re: Old database is erased when I add new information (Perulinks)
Ranking Script <bart@criders.com>
Reaing user input <hannak@rochester.rr.com>
Re: Reaing user input <aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Trouble with Virtual Avenue (Natalie Portman)
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 1 Jul 99) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:51:45 +0000
From: Derek Sherlock <derek_sherlock@hp.com>
Subject: $_ question (restated concisely)
Message-Id: <3790DED1.E135773A@hp.com>
Hi,
In thread-enabled perl, $_ is a lexical variable, so says man
perldelta. And foreach loops implicitly localize the iterator, so says
the camel book.
So how come I get this output from this script?:
use Thread;
foreach $_ (1,2)
{
&do_it;
}
sub do_it
{
print "$_\n";
}
Output:
1
2
If I replace $_ everywhere with an explicit lexical, I get just blank
lines out, which is the behavior I would expect from a "localized
lexical".
Derek Sherlock
derek_sherlock@hp.com
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:16:11 -0700
From: "bob@tokensystems.com" <bob@tokensystems.com>
Subject: --Help Wanted
Message-Id: <37927C5B.9A38C8E1@tokensystems.com>
PERL PROGRAMMER WANTED
Must be able to create anything we need in Perl, and must be able to
adapt to a tremendous amount of currently existing code. Sys Admin
skills on Red Hat is a big plus. Work at home. Contact
bob@tokensystems.com
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Date: 19 Jul 1999 02:10:19 GMT
From: kj0 <kj0@mailcity.com>
Subject: 3D modeling with Perl?
Message-Id: <7mu1eb$ekf$1@news.panix.com>
I'd like to write a small application to visualize and rotate 3D
objects (specifically, simple representations of molecules). I'd like
to do this using as much Perl as possible (and conversely, avoiding
learning new languages/applications as much as possible). Are there
any tools or source code on the web that would facilitate this
programming task?
Thanks for your suggestions,
KJ
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:07:17 GMT
From: <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Subject: Re: [Q] Can sendmail be used for attachments?
Message-Id: <9Tuk3.15686$y92.9051@news.rdc1.ct.home.com>
Nick Condon <nick.condon@tamesis.com> wrote:
> Jessie Hernandez wrote:
>> I know how to send an e-mail without an attachment with sendmail(easy!),
>> but how can I send an attachment? Specifically, a page of mine has an input
>> of type "file". So I'm actually going to ask two questions:
>>
>> How can i get the file handle of the file that the user entered in an HTML
>> form?
>>
>> How can I send an e-mail with this file attachment?
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> Sendmail doesn't understand attachments.
It may be more correct to say that sendmail (and smail, and qmail, and
most any other MTA) doesn't care at all about what's in the body of a
message. It's just a minimally formatted bytestream as far as they're
concerned.
Which doesn't necessarily answer the question the original poster posed,
but a reasonably important point nonetheless.
Dan
(FWIW, check out MIME::Lite on CPAN. I don't recall if the original
responder mentioned that, as I snipped out that bit too soon...)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:02:02 GMT
From: Carfield Yim <c8133594@comp.polyu.edu.hk>
Subject: Re: Accessing a MS Access Database
Message-Id: <7mu7vm$hlj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
I am a newbie of using perl to control database,
I wonder, can I control a access database (*.mdb) in unix?
I don't need to use the *.mdb at unix, I can download to windows to use.
But I hope that the user can change the content of a database at unix server.
Using access in because the one will access database is only know access.
Can any one help me?
In article <37912699.18E915D3@ccrs.nrcanDOTgc.ca>,
Tom Kralidis <tom.kralidis@ccrs.nrcanDOTgc.ca> wrote:
> How can access a .mdb from Perl?
>
> Thanks
>
> ..Tom
>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:55:30 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Anybody know how to to this?
Message-Id: <1dv5wdd.1mlyfsz1wpxw3kN@p226.tc19a.metro.ma.tiac.com>
Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> wrote:
> !! People have this irritating tendency of making subject into a verb to
> !! shorten speech, like
>
> CGI - three syllables.
> program - two syllables.
>
> *What* shortening are you talking about?
I don't know about you, Abigail, but most people don't read their posts
out loud while they're composing them. ;)
Seriously, though, 'CGI' as a shortening of 'CGI program' is
understandable, even though misguided. If I say "I need someone to
write a CGI" you can tell what I mean. 'program' as a shortening of
'CGI program' does not make sense, because there's no way to distinguish
from any other sort of program. If I say "I need someone to write a
program" you have no way of knowing what kind of program I need written.
--
_ / ' _ / - aka -
( /)//)//)(//)/( Ronald J Kimball rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu
/ http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/
"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:38:03 -0700
From: paul@pault.com
Subject: Re: CGI::Fast vs. Apache
Message-Id: <37929D9A.3EC8178E@pault.com>
brian d foy wrote:
> In article <379210B2.CD3548FA@mit.edu>, Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@mit.edu> posted:
>
> > Which will get me more bang (efficiency and speed) for my buck (time spent
> > learning it)?
> >
> > mod_perl seems to be more robust, but there also seem to be an inordinate number
> > of caveats.
>
> Fastcgi is still CGI, mostly. native mod_perl (not Apache::Registry)
> should be much faster.
What do you mean by "much"? Maybe
"a bit"?. Actualy, FastCGI gives you
2 possilbe ways to use it. cgi-fcgi bridge
way may be not the fastest one, because
of starting a separate process, but there is
also another way, with Apache module.
In that case all you need is to pass a bunch
of data with sockets and sockets are *fast*.
Anyway your backend is querying SQL sever
over sockets, right ? Data persistency saves
you *much* more ;-).
FastCGI gives you presistency for data.
FastCGI does not spawn a copy of a (huge)
process, for each request, like mod_perl does.
However, mod_perl may be better in some very
specific cases.
If you'l take portability into account there would be
no question: only FastCGI ( or FastCGI-alike
solution, because original FastCGI code was buggy. ).
Rgds.Paul.
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:47:23 GMT
From: justinchaffey@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Full path to file
Message-Id: <7mu749$hdg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Bart,
Its the path to the file that I need - not the current working
directory! I.e. Is there a way to find out the absolute path to a
file - from the file name, file handle, etc?
e.g. If I have a command line like "my_script *.html" then can I find
out the full network path to each file? Ideally, I would like a
function like
$path = getpath($filename);
Sincerely
Justin
------------
In article <3790e8d1.6117162@news.skynet.be>,
bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) wrote:
> justinchaffey@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> >I'm building a perl script for processing groups
> >of files and I somehow need to find the full
> >network path to each file. But, not by examining
> >the command line arguments if possible.
> >
> >As far as I can see, the 'stat' command cannot
> >help. And, after quite a lot of searching I have
> >not found any other options.
>
> Uh... does this mean that you can access the file anyway? That it's
> specification is somehow relative to the current directory? In that
> case, the module Cwd may be of assistance.
>
> use Cwd;
> print "I am in ". cwd;
>
> It will tell you the Current Working Directory. You may be able to
work
> it out from there. You can always store the current CWD, do a chdir()
to
> the dir of the file, and check the cwd() there. Afterwards, restore
the
> old CWD, and you're back where you started, ready for the next file.
>
> HTH,
> Bart.
>
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Date: 19 Jul 1999 04:56:42 GMT
From: stevens@frisco.gulch.com (Steven Smolinski)
Subject: Re: Full path to file
Message-Id: <slrn7p57r3.e2u.stevens@frisco.gulch.com>
justinchaffey@my-deja.com <justinchaffey@my-deja.com> wrote:
=Bart,
=
=Its the path to the file that I need - not the current working
=directory! I.e. Is there a way to find out the absolute path to a
=file - from the file name, file handle, etc?
=
=e.g. If I have a command line like "my_script *.html" then can I find
[...]
Well, if your script is invoked "myscript *.html" then the current
working directory *is* the directory for the files you get from @ARGV.
And if you can open the file, then the CWD will return the proper path.
If you want to know the directory for a filename, but don't require
the file to be in the CWD when the program is invoked (and this seems
to be a really silly thing to do in most cases) then call the "find"
unix utility or use File::Find and roll your own search subroutine.
Steve
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:13:56 GMT
From: Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@home.com>
Subject: Re: HHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!
Message-Id: <379289B4.B884FF3B@home.com>
Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> >>>>> "TM" == Tad McClellan <tadmc@metronet.com> writes:
>
> TM> cshelby (cshelby@mindspring.com) wrote:
> TM> : Subject: HHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
> TM> SSSSuuuuubbbbjjjjjeeeecccctttt!!!!
>
> VVVVVEEEERRRRBBBBB!!!!!!
That's what's happenin'!
--
Rick Delaney
rick.delaney@home.com
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:58:31 -0700
From: lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
Subject: Re: Http 500 Error running CGI scripts on PWS 4.0 [win98]
Message-Id: <MPG.11fc342b4156da3f989cf5@nntp.hpl.hp.com>
In article <379250B1.E7ED01EC@toad.net> on Sun, 18 Jul 1999 18:09:53 -
0400, matt <loprestim@toad.net> says...
> I have tried to use PWS, and had alot problems with it. My advise to you: get
> the apache web server for Win32. I installed it, and have had no problems with
> cgi running on it. You can get it at www.apache.org. If you would rather stick
> with PWS, looking at your script, the header make sure in fact that the
> perl.exe resides in /usr/local/bin. If not make that path ie. #!/perl/bin/perl
Those paths don't mean much in Win32. Even if they were correct, some
webservers use them, some don't. The command switches will be observed
in either case, if the path contains the string 'perl'.
--
(Just Another Larry) Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:06:38 -0700
From: "Kevin M. Sproule" <kmsproule@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Local CGI with ActivePerl
Message-Id: <7mu15v$hdb$1@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>
Floyd Morrissette wrote in message <7mpn7t$9kk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>For some reason, perhaps because of not being used to people having
>preferences that are not the same as her own, Abigail called me an idiot
>and silly.
> SNIP <
Mr Morrisette,
While many folks who respond to messages in this news group are brilliant in
their areas, they seem to not be very nice people. The anonymity of this
type of forum seems to cause some people to loose all sense of civility.
While I'm sure most would never insult you to your face; insults, FTFM's,
and other tirades against message posters seem to be the rule and not the
exception. Some news groups can be small and brutal worlds.
I guess all we can do is to try to set a good example.
Yours truly,
Kevin Sproule
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:09:50 -0500
From: Matt Turner <matt@mail.tca.net>
Subject: Re: MS Access ODBC Truncates
Message-Id: <3791FC4E.7B73840D@mail.tca.net>
Marcel,
Sorry I should have tried a little harder before I sent that last message
back. I got the insert statement working with this syntax:
use DBI qw/SQL_LONGVARCHAR/;
$a_long_string="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:survey', 'user', 'pass') || die
$DBI::errstr;
$sql1 = "INSERT INTO survey (scs_comments) VALUES (?)";
$sth1 = $dbh->prepare($sql1)|| die $dbh->errstr;
$sth1->bind_param( 1, $a_long_string, { TYPE => SQL_LONGVARCHAR });
$sth1->execute || $dbh->errstr;
But now I can't seem to figure out how to do a select statement. Here is
what I am trying:
use DBI qw/SQL_LONGVARCHAR/;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:survey', 'user', 'pass') || die
$DBI::errstr;
$sql1 = "Select ? from survey where id=11";
$sth1 = $dbh->prepare($sql1)|| die $dbh->errstr;
$sth1->bind_param( 1, $scs_comments, { TYPE => SQL_LONGVARCHAR });
$sth1->execute || $dbh->errstr;
I don't know how to really use that bind_param statement. I am trying to
select the column scs_comments from the database, but I can't seem to figure
it out...
I guess there really isn't an easier way to do this? I hate Microsoft...
Thanks,
Matt
Marcel Grunauer wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:10:57 -0500, Matt Turner <matt@mail.tca.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I am having a problem getting information out of a memo type field in an
> >access database. If the memo field is only 80 characters long, my perl
> >script (using DBI, DBD-ODBC, activestate, WinNt4) returns the column
> >fine. But if the memo field is 81 or more characters long I get the
> >following error:
> >
> >DBD::ODBC::st fetchrow_array failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access
> >97 Driver]Data Truncated (SQL-01004)(DBD: st_fetch/SQLFetch (long
> >truncated) err=1) at test.pl line 12
>
> Been there, done that. You'll get the same result if you try to import
> directly into an Access database via the Access application. Some MS
> idiocy going on, I'm sure.
>
> Anyway.
>
> You've got to tell DBI to use a certain data type when dealing with
> memo fields.
>
> use DBI qw/SQL_LONGVARCHAR/;
>
> $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{INSERT INTO TableName (memofieldname) VALUES
> (?)}) || die $dbh->errstr;
> $sth->bind_param( 1, $a_long_string, { TYPE => SQL_LONGVARCHAR });
> $sth->execute || $dbh->errstr;
> }
>
> That should do it.
>
> Marcel
> --
> perl -e 'print unpack(q$u$,q$82G5S="!!;F]T:&5R(%!E<FP@2&%C:V5R$)'
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:52:26 -0400
From: Brian <gilmanb@vuser.union.edu>
Subject: Re: newbie needs help!
Message-Id: <3792A0D4.FE37AFB0@vuser.union.edu>
Sorry for all the stupid mistakes that I posted! I guess my blatant stupidity
will get me kicked off this news group pretty quickly unless I clean up my act!
Although I have made small utility programs in C/C++ Java and other languages,
I do not consider myself a programmer per se. I am simply a person trying to
tackle a problem with what I thought was the "swiss army knife of unix
scripting" (my friend told me that).....Anyway, I'm going to re-read the doc.
and yes, I do have programming Perl along with Perl CookBook.....
Brian
Larry Rosler wrote:
> In article <slrn7p3a33.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com> on 18 Jul 1999
> 05:12:19 -0500, Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> says...
> > Larry Rosler (lr@hpl.hp.com) wrote on MMCXLVII September MCMXCIII in
> > <URL:news:MPG.11fb098df215fb42989cf1@nntp.hpl.hp.com>:
> > ,, ... in line with my
> > ,, environmentally-correct goal of conserving the world's limited supply of
> > ,, semicolons, I would write it thus:
> > ,,
> > ,, chomp(@array = <CONF>);
> >
> > You do realize that one hardly needs semicolons in Perl, don't you?
> > That one semicolon there isn't necessary:
> >
> > {chomp(@array = <CONF>)}
>
> Wasting one more character is even less eco-correct than wasting a
> semicolon.
>
> --
> (Just Another Larry) Rosler
> Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
> lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: 19 Jul 1999 04:03:34 GMT
From: cs_ccyab@ug.cs.ust.hk (Patrick)
Subject: newbie question
Message-Id: <7mu82m$3no@ustsu10.ust.hk>
i am a newbie in perl
in my perl program
there is a line:
use LWP::Socket;
when i execute it, it showed me:
Can't locate LWP/Socket.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/sun4-solaris-thread
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris-thread
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at adduser.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at adduser.pl line 3.
--
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Date: 19 Jul 1999 03:42:27 GMT
From: perulinks@aol.com (Perulinks)
Subject: Re: Old database is erased when I add new information
Message-Id: <19990718234227.14661.00002186@ng-bh1.aol.com>
Microsoft is Microsoft. Bill has lots of bargaining power and money to do
whatever he wants. If we need to use Windos (95 or 98), we really don't have
much choice.
When it comes to selecting a programer to do a 249.00 Perl job--we do have lots
of choices. They stand behind their programs. If that is too much to ask,
they should at least be more accessible.
Carlos
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:33:41 -0500
From: Bart Crider <bart@criders.com>
Subject: Ranking Script
Message-Id: <37928075.76B9C43F@criders.com>
Anyone know of a good script that will handle ranking various attributes
of say a product. I'm looking for something similar to what deja.com
uses for their product rankings.
thanks,
Bart
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:36:04 -0400
From: Victor Hannak <hannak@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Reaing user input
Message-Id: <379272F4.80D404CD@rochester.rr.com>
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Is this possible with Perl for Win32?
<br>
<p>Core FAQ 8 describes a method for:
<p>How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
<p>as follows:
<p>The easiest way to do this is to read a key in nonblocking mode with
the
<br>Term::ReadKey module from CPAN, passing it an argument of -1 to indicate
<br>not to block:
<p> use Term::ReadKey;
<p> ReadMode('cbreak');
<p> if (defined ($char = ReadKey(-1)) ) {
<br> # input was waiting and
it was $char
<br> } else {
<br> # no input was waiting
<br> }
<p> ReadMode('normal');
# restore normal tty settings
<br>
<br>
<br> </html>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:33:29 -0700
From: Andrew J Perrin <aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Reaing user input
Message-Id: <37928E79.397A7D5F@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Victor Hannak wrote:
> Is this possible with Perl for Win32?
>
What happened when you tried it out?
--
-------------------------------------------------------------
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aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/7544/
-------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:07:15 GMT
From: Natalie@ix.netcom.com (Natalie Portman)
Subject: Trouble with Virtual Avenue
Message-Id: <37928762.104724633@news.giganews.com>
I'm just starting at this. For my first CGI program, I made a
guestbook signing form and a perl program to print the information
received from the form. It tells me there's some kind of
misconfiguration. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
Here's the HTML code and the Perl code:
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>GuestBook Entry Addition</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<!--VirtualAvenueBanner-->
<BR><BR>
<P>
<H2>Please Sign My Guestbook</H2>
<FORM METHOD=GET ACTION="/cgi-bin/guestbook/guestsign.pl">
<DT>Name:<BR>
<DD><INPUT TYPE=text NAME=name SIZE=30>
<DT>Comment:<BR>
<DD><TEXTAREA NAME=comment ROWS=5 COLS=50></TEXTAREA><p>
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Sign In">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
========================================================================
#!/usr/bin/perl
$temp=$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
@pairs=split(/&/,$temp);
foreach $item(@pairs)
{
($key,$content)=split (/=/,$item,2);
$content=~tr/+/ /;
$content=~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
$fields{$key}=$content;
}
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n";
print "<h2>$fields{'name'}</h2>\n";
print "<pre>$fields{'comment'}</pre>\n";
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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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