[19655] in Perl-Users-Digest
Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 1850 Volume: 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perl-Users Digest)
Mon Oct 1 11:10:35 2001
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:10:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Perl-Users Digest <Perl-Users-Request@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU>
To: Perl-Users@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (Perl-Users Digest)
Message-Id: <1001949012-v10-i1850@ruby.oce.orst.edu>
Content-Type: text
Perl-Users Digest Mon, 1 Oct 2001 Volume: 10 Number: 1850
Today's topics:
Installation error (perl misk)
Re: Installation error <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Re: Making A Windows Program from Perl <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
Re: Making A Windows Program from Perl <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
perl standard error/output redirection to a file on NT? (SN)
Re: perl standard error/output redirection to a file on <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Perl Tk and Pack Problems slightlysprintingdog@ntlworld.com
question of copyright (Leo)
Segmentation fault with Stronghold 3.0 <okhoma@voy.lviv.ua>
splitting a very wide report <mdulrich@unity.ncsu.edu>
Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
use RPC; (perl misk)
Re: use RPC; <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Re: warnings with cgi will crash Win32 perl core <camerond@mail.uca.edu>
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2001 04:50:34 -0700
From: perlmisk@yahoo.co.uk (perl misk)
Subject: Installation error
Message-Id: <7fe42fcd.0110010350.4f36ff0a@posting.google.com>
Where is the best place to find support/error documentation for a
failed perl installation?
perl:
5.6.1
the server:
bash$ uname -a
SunOS lion 5.5 Generic_103093-28 sun4d sparc SUNW,SPARCserver-1000
the error:
Checking your choice of C compiler and flags for coherency...
I've tried to compile and run the following simple program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Ok\n"); exit(0); }
I used the command:
cc -o try -O -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib try.c
-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc
./try
and I got the following output:
ld.so.1: ./try: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed: No such file or
directory
Killed
The program compiled OK, but exited with status 137.
(The supplied flags or libraries might be incorrect.)
You have a problem. Shall I abort Configure [y]
Ok. Stopping Configure.
In addition, is it considered OK to post small scripts for
code-reviews as a method for constructive coding methosd/techniques?
Regards
Andy
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 15:53:41 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: Installation error
Message-Id: <clsgrtso9nqoiqks1hm1a1vsqq4j4kobof@4ax.com>
On 1 Oct 2001 04:50:34 -0700, perlmisk@yahoo.co.uk (perl misk) wrote:
[...]
>the server:
>bash$ uname -a
>SunOS lion 5.5 Generic_103093-28 sun4d sparc SUNW,SPARCserver-1000
Have you already considered donating this to a museum? :-)
[...]
>the error:
>Checking your choice of C compiler and flags for coherency...
>I've tried to compile and run the following simple program:
[...]
>ld.so.1: ./try: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed: No such file or
>directory
Well, you're missing at least the gdbm libraries on your box. Since
configure did try cc instead of gcc, I'd also suspect you don't have a
current compiler package installed.
You can find gcc and library binary (and even Perl 5.6.1) packages at
http://www.sunfreeware.com/. Once you have the stuff installed, you may
have to change your $PATH environment so that configure finds gcc et.
al.
I don't have a Solaris 5 box to check this, but on Solaris 7/8 I usually
use "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH" for building - that
puts gcc at the top of the search list before any other compiler, and
gives me access to the Sun ld.
>In addition, is it considered OK to post small scripts for
>code-reviews as a method for constructive coding methosd/techniques?
I'd say, by all means yes. Just include some description of whatyour
code is supposed to do. Self-contained programs that include sample data
in __DATA__ are especially easy to try out.
HTH,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:15:32 +0300
From: "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
Subject: Re: Making A Windows Program from Perl
Message-Id: <1001931477.531167@athnrd02.forthnet.gr>
A perl program can be much faster than a C++ one (even if perl interpreter
is writen in C++ ) only in cases where you have complex comparitions of big
arrays and you take advance of the hashes power ! At numerical operations
and calculation C++ is much faster, so it looks you have to write your game
at C++ after all.
"What A Man !" <whataman@home.com> wrote in message
news:3BB7F2AB.14BA2E48@home.com...
> novastar wrote:
> >
> > Sorry Larry but perl is very weak at gui interfaces and very poor on 2d
> > graphics. Better not talk about 3d graphics !
> >
>
> So, what are you saying? That it's better to write those type of
> applications in C/C++ or some other compiled language? As an example,
> please tell me how much slower would a perl converted Win32 .exe file be
> compared to the same application written in C or C++?
>
> ALSO... Perl has several graphics modules. Are they really that slow?
>
> Regards,
> --Dennis
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:22:50 GMT
From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Making A Windows Program from Perl
Message-Id: <grqgrt051pfkeu0mc420fv2ts36qd6d8ri@4ax.com>
What A Man ! wrote:
>novastar wrote:
>>
>> Sorry Larry but perl is very weak at gui interfaces and very poor on 2d
>> graphics. Better not talk about 3d graphics !
>>
>
>So, what are you saying? That it's better to write those type of
>applications in C/C++ or some other compiled language?
Uh... yes? It all depends on what kind of programs you're talking about.
If you want to write the next ultimate Doom-alike game, you'll likely
want DirectX and that's not possible in Perl. You'll need to squeeze out
every last bit of performance out of the processor, and Perl is a bit
wasteful.
>As an example,
>please tell me how much slower would a perl converted Win32 .exe file be
>compared to the same application written in C or C++?
Impossible to say. First of all: the perl program will NOT be ONE SINGLE
BIT faster when processed through perl2exe. That's because perl2exe is
not a compier. It packs the perl script as encrypted text, with the
interpreter, all modules and even DLL's, into a single EXE file. As it
runs the same way as before, speed will be the same.
But a properly written perl script may run faster than a rather poorly
written C/C++ program. It's easy to create both. A properly written C or
C++ program, now *that* is hard to write. ;-)
>ALSO... Perl has several graphics modules. Are they really that slow?
No. But they're not written in Perl. They're written in C. In Windows
lingo: they're compiled to a DLL. There is an interface written between
Perl and this DLL, and that is the bulk of what was written especially
for Perl.
You don't say exactly for what kind of programs or games you would want
to write. "games" is a very broad spectrum. You also don't say what
expertise you already have. It sounds as if you've just begun learning.
If you go the C++ route, be prepared to be patient. It will likely take
years before you'll be able to write a C/C++ program you can be really
proud of.
Perhaps you can start of with Java. It's not that fast as C, but speed
isn't half bad, and it doesn't take too much code to write a program
with a proper user interface, or with neat graphical effects. Plus: the
compiler is free.
--
Bart.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:10:44 -0000
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <trgub4oi9me426@corp.supernews.com>
Following is a summary of articles from new posters spanning a 7 day
period, beginning at 24 Sep 2001 14:37:20 GMT and ending at
01 Oct 2001 13:29:30 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2001 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Totals
======
Posters: 103 (32.5% of all posters)
Articles: 173 (16.2% of all articles)
Volume generated: 304.5 kb (15.8% of total volume)
- headers: 137.8 kb (2,816 lines)
- bodies: 160.9 kb (5,559 lines)
- original: 117.2 kb (4,317 lines)
- signatures: 5.7 kb (128 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.728
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 1.7
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 69 posters
s: 1.9 posts
Message size: 1802.6 bytes
- header: 815.9 bytes (16.3 lines)
- body: 952.2 bytes (32.1 lines)
- original: 693.5 bytes (25.0 lines)
- signature: 33.5 bytes (0.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
10 20.4 ( 9.1/ 8.6/ 4.5) Ilmari Karonen <usenet11591@itz.pp.sci.fi>
8 11.2 ( 6.3/ 4.9/ 3.6) EXP <nospaming@gmx.net>
7 14.6 ( 6.1/ 8.4/ 3.3) "Brady Doll" <gte574u@prism.gatech.edu>
6 9.8 ( 4.2/ 5.5/ 2.3) Stephane TOUGARD <s_tougard@hotmail.com>
5 8.7 ( 4.6/ 4.1/ 1.1) "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
4 7.0 ( 3.4/ 2.9/ 1.9) bboett@bboett.dyndns.org
4 8.2 ( 4.6/ 3.5/ 1.5) mb@hgs.at
4 6.3 ( 2.8/ 3.5/ 3.2) Carlos C . Gonzalez <aperlprogrammer@yahoo.com>
4 6.7 ( 3.4/ 3.3/ 1.9) Snipes <pilotsnipes@yahoo.com>
3 7.0 ( 2.5/ 4.5/ 3.9) slightlysprintingdog@ntlworld.com
These posters accounted for 5.1% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
20.4 ( 9.1/ 8.6/ 4.5) 10 Ilmari Karonen <usenet11591@itz.pp.sci.fi>
14.6 ( 6.1/ 8.4/ 3.3) 7 "Brady Doll" <gte574u@prism.gatech.edu>
11.4 ( 1.4/ 10.1/ 9.6) 2 NuArb <tristan.braun@gmx.net>
11.2 ( 6.3/ 4.9/ 3.6) 8 EXP <nospaming@gmx.net>
9.8 ( 4.2/ 5.5/ 2.3) 6 Stephane TOUGARD <s_tougard@hotmail.com>
8.9 ( 0.9/ 8.0/ 8.0) 1 "Fat Boy" <simercer@NOSPAMhotmail.com>
8.7 ( 4.6/ 4.1/ 1.1) 5 "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
8.2 ( 4.6/ 3.5/ 1.5) 4 mb@hgs.at
7.9 ( 1.1/ 6.8/ 6.7) 1 Mike Wood <acewood@texas.net>
7.0 ( 3.4/ 2.9/ 1.9) 4 bboett@bboett.dyndns.org
These posters accounted for 5.6% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of three posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.927 ( 3.2 / 3.5) 4 Carlos C . Gonzalez <aperlprogrammer@yahoo.com>
0.870 ( 3.9 / 4.5) 3 slightlysprintingdog@ntlworld.com
0.739 ( 3.6 / 4.9) 8 EXP <nospaming@gmx.net>
0.643 ( 1.9 / 2.9) 4 bboett@bboett.dyndns.org
0.565 ( 1.9 / 3.3) 4 Snipes <pilotsnipes@yahoo.com>
0.526 ( 4.5 / 8.6) 10 Ilmari Karonen <usenet11591@itz.pp.sci.fi>
0.446 ( 1.0 / 2.3) 3 evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu
0.437 ( 1.5 / 3.5) 4 mb@hgs.at
0.416 ( 2.3 / 5.5) 6 Stephane TOUGARD <s_tougard@hotmail.com>
0.396 ( 3.3 / 8.4) 7 "Brady Doll" <gte574u@prism.gatech.edu>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of three posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.870 ( 3.9 / 4.5) 3 slightlysprintingdog@ntlworld.com
0.739 ( 3.6 / 4.9) 8 EXP <nospaming@gmx.net>
0.643 ( 1.9 / 2.9) 4 bboett@bboett.dyndns.org
0.565 ( 1.9 / 3.3) 4 Snipes <pilotsnipes@yahoo.com>
0.526 ( 4.5 / 8.6) 10 Ilmari Karonen <usenet11591@itz.pp.sci.fi>
0.446 ( 1.0 / 2.3) 3 evan.cooch@NOSPAMcornell.edu
0.437 ( 1.5 / 3.5) 4 mb@hgs.at
0.416 ( 2.3 / 5.5) 6 Stephane TOUGARD <s_tougard@hotmail.com>
0.396 ( 3.3 / 8.4) 7 "Brady Doll" <gte574u@prism.gatech.edu>
0.275 ( 1.1 / 4.1) 5 "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
11 posters (10%) had at least three posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
34 comp.lang.perl.modules
20 alt.perl
13 comp.lang.perl
10 comp.unix.programmer
10 comp.unix.questions
10 comp.mail.sendmail
2 es.comp.infosistemas.misc
2 comp.protocols.snmp
2 es.comp.infosistemas.internet
1 nl.comp.programmeren
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
8 Snipes <pilotsnipes@yahoo.com>
4 "Mike Miller" <miller5286@usenetserver.com>
3 "Esteban Cozzi" <egcotzzi@altanvistai.com>
3 "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
2 info_NS1@sundialservices.com
2 Jon's
2 Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@bestweb.net>
2 Alex Colvin <acolvin@bbn.com>
2 redmist <redmist@users.sourceforge.net>
2 "Dann Corbit" <dcorbit@connx.com>
------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2001 07:13:26 -0700
From: throne7@my-deja.com (SN)
Subject: perl standard error/output redirection to a file on NT??
Message-Id: <c2ec2c5b.0110010613.18580b4c@posting.google.com>
Hi gurus,
I am trying to run some big perl program on NT 4.0, these programs
were developed priorly on Unix. Lots/tons of error messages are
generated and it
scrolls right out of my command console (cmd.exe??) I can't read
them fast
enough and so can't fix my program to complete the port to NT. Please
help me
how do you make redirection of stderr/stdout work on NT?? I tried
this
and it didn't work
perlprog.pl > log.txt DIDNT WORK
perlprog.pl 2>&1 >log.txt DIDN"T WORK
perlprog.pl >> log.txt DIDN"T WORK
what teh h?ll is going on?
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:20:44 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: perl standard error/output redirection to a file on NT??
Message-Id: <0rugrtg7hk7ogdgeu9s0v2fpq21v2k1uuh@4ax.com>
On 1 Oct 2001 07:13:26 -0700, throne7@my-deja.com (SN) wrote:
>how do you make redirection of stderr/stdout work on NT?? I tried
Try "whatever.pl >stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt"
This'll put the "normal" command output in the file stdout.txt, and the
wardings/errors in stderr.txt.
If you need to redirect error messages from external programs to stderr,
see "perldoc -q stderr" for details.
HTH,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:07:45 +0100
From: slightlysprintingdog@ntlworld.com
Subject: Perl Tk and Pack Problems
Message-Id: <3BB86AA1.A2BF0BA@ntlworld.com>
I'm having problems with a Perl Tk script that uses multiple windows.
Basically, I click a button to open a window then click close. (using
$mw->destroy();)
Then click to open the same window and I get this error.
Any ideas ? - or do I need to be more specific ?
pack (10):
0 0x197fe0 RV f=00080503 {}(1)
1 0x19c888 PV f=04840004 configure(1)
2 0x21ca14 PV f=04840004 -side(1)
3 0x21ca2c PV f=04840004 top(1)
4 0x21ca38 PV f=04840004 -anchor(1)
5 0x21ca50 PV f=04840004 w(1)
6 0x21ca5c PV f=04840004 -padx(1)
7 0x21ca08 PVIV f=05810005 f=05810005 30(1)
8 0x21ca80 PV f=04840004 -pady(1)
9 0x21ca74 PVIV f=05810005 f=05810005 5(1)
Tk::Error: Usage $widget->pack(...) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Tk/Widget.pm line
1030.
at regress.pl line 248
[\&main::__ANON__]
Tk callback for .button1
Tk::__ANON__ at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Tk.pm
line 228
Tk::Button::butUp at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Tk/Button.pm line 110
(command bound to event)
------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2001 07:51:32 -0700
From: leapius@hotmail.com (Leo)
Subject: question of copyright
Message-Id: <4f5355b6.0110010651.676c539a@posting.google.com>
Hi all,
I have a quick question. A small part of my perl program deals with
uploading files via a web form. I looked into dealing with such a
request and found the code in cgi-lib.pl best suited my needs, however
because of the way my program dealt with file uploads I could not
interface cgi-lib into my code in the standard way so I took a small
chunk of code in the library (dealing with file uploads) and
encorporated it directly into my parsing routine. I have acknowledged
it's use (as specified in the copyright notice of cgi-lib.pl) and why
it is used directly in my code. Am I breaking any copyright in doing
this? This program may be sold for profit the actual code taken
represents 0.5% of the total original code in my program.
cheers,
Leo
p.s. the copywright stated in cgi-lib.pl is:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Steven E. Brenner
# Unpublished work.
# Permission granted to use and modify this library so long as the
# copyright above is maintained, modifications are documented, and
# credit is given for any use of the library.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:05:17 +0300
From: "Oleh Khoma" <okhoma@voy.lviv.ua>
Subject: Segmentation fault with Stronghold 3.0
Message-Id: <9p9tfl$1c5g$1@news.uar.net>
Hi!
Having problems compiling Stronghold 3.0 with perl-5.6.1 embedded. Using
CCFLAGS=`perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts`
LDFLAGS=`perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts`
Everything is compiled smoothly. Stronghold runs, but any request results in
'Segmentation fault' in one of httpd's children.
The problem is that it worked perfectly with perl-5.6.0. What could be wrong
when using new perl release? How to make it work?
Note: Stronghold 3.0 is build over the Apache-1.3.12 with EAPI=yes and with
shared memory manager mm-1.1.1 (also used mm-1.1.3) from Ralf S.
Engelschall.
Thanks in advance!
-- Oleh Khoma [Email:okhoma@mail.com][ICQ:55191139][FIDO:2:462/90.80]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:35:31 -0400
From: Marc Ulrich <mdulrich@unity.ncsu.edu>
Subject: splitting a very wide report
Message-Id: <3BB87F33.C558BAC2@unity.ncsu.edu>
I've a report output that is very very wide and is better done as three
individual reports (which will fit on a single page). Line wraps are
annoying and so is ultrasmall text.
The only solution I've come up with is to have three output formats and
do three separate reports. This is kind of awkward. I'd rather do a
single report but ask it to split it after column x and after column y.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Marc
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:10:42 -0000
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <trgub2knj91d22@corp.supernews.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 24 Sep 2001 14:37:20 GMT and ending at
01 Oct 2001 13:29:30 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2001 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
faq\@(?:.*\.)?denver\.pm\.org
Totals
======
Posters: 317
Articles: 1071 (504 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 269
Volume generated: 1933.2 kb
- headers: 885.9 kb (17,435 lines)
- bodies: 974.9 kb (31,935 lines)
- original: 599.8 kb (21,624 lines)
- signatures: 71.3 kb (1,503 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.615
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.4
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 158 posters
s: 5.8 posts
Posts per thread: 4.0
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 56 threads
s: 4.7 posts
Message size: 1848.4 bytes
- header: 847.0 bytes (16.3 lines)
- body: 932.2 bytes (29.8 lines)
- original: 573.5 bytes (20.2 lines)
- signature: 68.2 bytes (1.4 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
53 85.3 ( 47.6/ 37.3/ 22.1) Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
42 95.3 ( 33.7/ 59.2/ 31.7) Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
41 78.3 ( 37.2/ 29.5/ 18.3) =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
29 52.4 ( 22.8/ 27.6/ 16.2) nobull@mail.com
26 61.3 ( 22.2/ 34.0/ 20.6) mgjv@tradingpost.com.au
23 49.0 ( 20.3/ 21.7/ 15.2) Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
20 33.3 ( 15.8/ 16.5/ 8.7) David Wall <darkon@one.net>
20 40.2 ( 15.8/ 17.0/ 5.9) Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>
17 28.3 ( 10.8/ 12.7/ 6.0) Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
16 26.1 ( 12.0/ 13.5/ 8.7) Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us>
These posters accounted for 26.8% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
95.3 ( 33.7/ 59.2/ 31.7) 42 Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
85.3 ( 47.6/ 37.3/ 22.1) 53 Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
78.3 ( 37.2/ 29.5/ 18.3) 41 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
61.3 ( 22.2/ 34.0/ 20.6) 26 mgjv@tradingpost.com.au
52.4 ( 22.8/ 27.6/ 16.2) 29 nobull@mail.com
49.0 ( 20.3/ 21.7/ 15.2) 23 Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
40.2 ( 15.8/ 17.0/ 5.9) 20 Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>
33.3 ( 15.8/ 16.5/ 8.7) 20 David Wall <darkon@one.net>
28.3 ( 10.8/ 12.7/ 6.0) 17 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
26.1 ( 12.0/ 13.5/ 8.7) 16 Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us>
These posters accounted for 28.4% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 3.9 / 3.9) 7 gamtci1@mpinet.net
0.986 ( 6.7 / 6.8) 8 abigail@foad.org
0.814 ( 5.1 / 6.3) 8 Dave Tweed <dtweed@acm.org>
0.786 ( 3.5 / 4.5) 5 Walter Hafner <hafner@augusta.de>
0.781 ( 9.2 / 11.8) 13 Logan Shaw <logan@cs.utexas.edu>
0.739 ( 3.6 / 4.9) 8 EXP <nospaming@gmx.net>
0.723 ( 3.7 / 5.1) 5 "Raj" <oneconcept@yahoo.co.uk>
0.714 ( 5.0 / 7.0) 6 Joe Schaefer <joe+usenet@sunstarsys.com>
0.708 ( 2.0 / 2.9) 8 "Chris" <na@na>
0.704 ( 4.6 / 6.5) 6 bill <bill02115@hotmail.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.398 ( 3.9 / 9.8) 14 Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
0.396 ( 3.3 / 8.4) 7 "Brady Doll" <gte574u@prism.gatech.edu>
0.390 ( 1.1 / 2.9) 5 Ren Maddox <ren@tivoli.com>
0.368 ( 2.7 / 7.2) 5 "David Hilsee" <davidhilseenews@yahoo.com>
0.346 ( 5.9 / 17.0) 20 Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>
0.333 ( 1.8 / 5.4) 7 Paul Boardman <peb@bms.umist.ac.uk>
0.324 ( 2.8 / 8.7) 11 "Tintin" <tintin@snowy.calculus>
0.308 ( 1.1 / 3.6) 6 Michael Budash <mbudash@sonic.net>
0.305 ( 1.3 / 4.3) 6 "NEWS" <na>
0.275 ( 1.1 / 4.1) 5 "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
52 posters (16%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
39 maths
17 Creating modules
16 Peek and Poke on Perl?
16 What good is the hyphen for named parameters?
16 Sourcing Things in Perl ?
14 emailing contents of text file
13 Encrypt/Decrypt
12 grap url
12 current dir.
11 Help: mail script (WIN)
These threads accounted for 15.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
71.7 ( 41.6/ 25.7/ 17.3) 39 maths
32.1 ( 14.6/ 16.4/ 8.5) 17 Creating modules
31.5 ( 12.9/ 17.6/ 12.0) 16 Sourcing Things in Perl ?
28.4 ( 16.6/ 11.5/ 8.8) 16 Peek and Poke on Perl?
27.3 ( 11.1/ 15.6/ 8.7) 14 emailing contents of text file
26.9 ( 12.9/ 12.7/ 6.7) 16 What good is the hyphen for named parameters?
25.9 ( 5.7/ 19.8/ 16.1) 7 IO::Socket && IO::Select Problem
22.3 ( 12.1/ 9.4/ 4.8) 13 Encrypt/Decrypt
22.1 ( 11.2/ 10.6/ 5.2) 11 Help: mail script (WIN)
21.7 ( 10.1/ 8.6/ 3.3) 12 grap url
These threads accounted for 16.0% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.931 ( 1.4/ 1.5) 5 XML::Writer question... how to write output to file?
0.873 ( 10.9/ 12.5) 5 sendmail gadget works on one server, not on another
0.813 ( 2.1/ 2.6) 5 String Comparison Problem
0.812 ( 16.1/ 19.8) 7 IO::Socket && IO::Select Problem
0.764 ( 8.8/ 11.5) 16 Peek and Poke on Perl?
0.758 ( 6.6/ 8.7) 9 Goto and global variables
0.757 ( 9.5/ 12.6) 7 AoA(LoL) Sorting
0.739 ( 2.8/ 3.8) 6 how to send mail without sendmail
0.724 ( 5.8/ 8.0) 7 eval-statement fools garbage-collection ?
0.721 ( 7.7/ 10.7) 5 Perl running slow...
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.455 ( 4.0 / 8.7) 11 a bit of help please.
0.449 ( 3.1 / 7.0) 6 HTML substitution
0.428 ( 1.1 / 2.6) 5 How do I get a list of files in a directory using perl?
0.405 ( 2.3 / 5.7) 6 Regex woes
0.400 ( 1.6 / 4.0) 6 How do I compare strings?
0.399 ( 2.7 / 6.7) 7 Perl ROOT
0.394 ( 3.0 / 7.7) 7 including local file in .cgi
0.388 ( 1.6 / 4.1) 7 Book Recommendations
0.383 ( 3.3 / 8.6) 12 grap url
0.268 ( 1.8 / 6.8) 11 Single line if Statement
77 threads (28%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
34 comp.lang.perl.modules
20 alt.perl
13 comp.lang.perl
10 comp.unix.programmer
10 comp.unix.questions
10 comp.mail.sendmail
2 es.comp.infosistemas.misc
2 comp.protocols.snmp
2 es.comp.infosistemas.internet
1 nl.comp.programmeren
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
8 Snipes <pilotsnipes@yahoo.com>
5 Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
5 Johan Vromans <JVromans@Squirrel.nl>
4 Marshall Dudley <mdudley@execonn.com>
4 "Mike Miller" <miller5286@usenetserver.com>
4 * Tong * <sun_tong@users.sourceforge.net>
3 Ron Reidy <ron@indra.com>
3 Malcolm Dew-Jones <yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>
3 "novastar" <novastar@novastar.dtdns.net>
3 "Esteban Cozzi" <egcotzzi@altanvistai.com>
------------------------------
Date: 1 Oct 2001 06:41:38 -0700
From: perlmisk@yahoo.co.uk (perl misk)
Subject: use RPC;
Message-Id: <7fe42fcd.0110010541.84dd2a6@posting.google.com>
Advanced Perl Programming
13.2.1 Using RPC
mentions an RPC module:
£ use RPC;
but a quick compilation with the above line returns:
£ [andrewm@itdev2 Monitor]$ ./menu.pl
£ Uncaught exception from user code:
£ Uncaught exception from user code:
£ Can't locate RPC.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
£ /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
£ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
£ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at ./menu.pl line 12.
£ main::BEGIN() called at RPC.pm line 12
£ require 0 called at RPC.pm line 12
£ BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./menu.pl line 12.
£ [andrewm@itdev2 Monitor]$
so off I go to CPAN, me assuming RPC is not part of the standard perl
5.6.0 installation ...
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=RPC
Only returns the following >=ver1.0
AcePerl-1.79 by Lincoln D. Stein Released 28th September 2001
Ace::RPC 1.00
RPC-XML-0.27 by Randy J Ray Released 8th July 2001
Apache::RPC::Server - A subclass of RPC::XML::Server class tuned for
mod_perl
RPC::XML - A set of classes for core data, message and XML
handling 1.05
RPC::XML::Client - Sample implementation of a RPC::XML client 1.03
RPC::XML::Parser - A container class for XML::Parser 1.02
RPC::XML::Server - A sample server implementation based on
RPC::XML 1.14
If I install RPC::XML::* will this install RPC for me or does it
suggest that RPC should already be installed?
Regards
Andy
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:00:20 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4tzler?= <Thomas@Baetzler.de>
Subject: Re: use RPC;
Message-Id: <qgtgrtoeo8vbnj1q9f5jfcnmblhj2e5vnt@4ax.com>
On 1 Oct 2001 06:41:38 -0700, perlmisk@yahoo.co.uk (perl misk) wrote:
>Advanced Perl Programming
>13.2.1 Using RPC
>
>mentions an RPC module:
I guess this is one of those books that are supposed to be read from
front to back for convenience. In 13.2., it says "In this section, we
use the Msg library to implement a Remote Procedure Call module,
RPC.pm."
If you don't want to type it in yourself, grab the sample sources at
http://examples.oreilly.com/advperl/.
HTH,
--
use strict;my($i,$t,@r)=(0,'5 -.@BHJPT4acd6e2hk2lmn2o4r2s3tuz',map{ord}
split//,unpack('u*','L#`T&)QD5#0`#!!`#%1D)#08`#P05!!(3``$$"``#"0L&``('.
'"`P<!`````0$`'));$t=~s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/eg;map{$t.=substr$t,$i,1,''while
$_--;$i++}@r;print"$t\n";# Thomas@Baetzler.de - http://baetzler.de/perl
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:29:30 -0500
From: Cameron Dorey <camerond@mail.uca.edu>
Subject: Re: warnings with cgi will crash Win32 perl core
Message-Id: <3BB861AA.48DDB558@mail.uca.edu>
Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
>
> Joe Smith wrote:
> >
> > In article <3B89DDB5.88B342C6@stomp.stomp.tokyo>,
> > Godzilla! <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo> wrote:
>
> It seems that Kira has stopped posting lately. Maybe she was at WTC?
I don't care who she is, don't even joke about that. There _are_ some
things too sad to mess with.
Cameron
--
Cameron Dorey
Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Central Arkansas
Phone: 501-450-5938
camerond@mail.uca.edu
------------------------------
Date: 6 Apr 2001 21:33:47 GMT (Last modified)
From: Perl-Users-Request@ruby.oce.orst.edu (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
Subject: Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01)
Message-Id: <null>
Administrivia:
The Perl-Users Digest is a retransmission of the USENET newsgroup
comp.lang.perl.misc. For subscription or unsubscription requests, send
the single line:
subscribe perl-users
or:
unsubscribe perl-users
to almanac@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.
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.
------------------------------
End of Perl-Users Digest V10 Issue 1850
***************************************
