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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 8812 Volume: 10
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Fri Dec 30 18:05:30 2005
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:05:04 -0800 (PST)
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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 30 Dec 2005 Volume: 10 Number: 8812
Today's topics:
Re: Exiting without printing <jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Re: FAQ 2.13 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access <jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Re: FAQ 8.3 How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/s (Anno Siegel)
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:22:38 -0800
From: Jim Gibson <jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Exiting without printing
Message-Id: <301220051022384574%jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <1135526036.275536@nntp.acecape.com>, Daniel Kaplan
<NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote:
> "Joe Smith" <joe@inwap.com> wrote in message
> news:rLGdnerGMaHDPDbeRVn-tg@comcast.com...
>
> > That is CGI syntax. If you invoke the app from a browser, that
> > is required. If you invoke the app from a cron job, that is not
> > required. If you invoke the app via the web server when there
> > is no browser in the picture, then you have the problem of
> > over complicating things, making it difficult on yourself.
>
> Curious then, I converted my CRON job scripts by removing all CGI related
> matters, and replacing them with plain old print lines. Curious, since this
> will be just a CRON job, should I remove those print statements. I mean, no
> one sees them in the end.
Under Unix, the output of a cron job is e-mailed to the owner of the
crontab file, although this behavior can be changed by redirecting the
output to the null device or including a MAILTO environment variable in
the crontab file.
(Nothing to do with Perl, of course :)
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:44:03 -0800
From: Jim Gibson <jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: FAQ 2.13 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
Message-Id: <301220051144034294%jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
In article <doj9t4$81u$1@reader1.panix.com>, PerlFAQ Server
<comdog@pair.com> wrote:
> This message is one of several periodic postings to comp.lang.perl.misc
> intended to make it easier for perl programmers to find answers to
> common questions. The core of this message represents an excerpt
> from the documentation provided with Perl.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 2.13: Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
Is there a question there?
>
> To get the best performance, pick a site from the list at
> http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html . From there you can find the quickest
> site for you.
>
> You may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code for
> your domain; e.g. Australia would use au.cpan.org. [Note: This only
> applies to countries that host at least one mirror.]
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Date: 30 Dec 2005 12:08:50 GMT
From: anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
Subject: Re: FAQ 8.3 How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
Message-Id: <dp380i$mps$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Tintin <tintin@invalid.invalid> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>
> "PerlFAQ Server" <comdog@pair.com> wrote in message
> news:dp2f25$jie$1@reader2.panix.com...
> > This message is one of several periodic postings to comp.lang.perl.misc
> > intended to make it easier for perl programmers to find answers to
> > common questions. The core of this message represents an excerpt
> > from the documentation provided with Perl.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 8.3: How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
> >
> > How you access/control keyboards, screens, and pointing devices
> ("mice")
> > is system-dependent. Try the following modules:
> >
> > Keyboard
> > Term::Cap Standard perl distribution
> > Term::ReadKey CPAN
> > Term::ReadLine::Gnu CPAN
> > Term::ReadLine::Perl CPAN
> > Term::Screen CPAN
> >
> > Screen
> > Term::Cap Standard perl distribution
> > Curses CPAN
> > Term::ANSIColor CPAN
> >
> > Mouse
> > Tk CPAN
> >
> > Some of these specific cases are shown below.
>
> There's nothing shown below.
"Below" means further down in perlfaq8, in
How do I print something out in color?
How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
etc.
Anno
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