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Mon Aug 25 03:07:19 1997
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 97 00:00:32 -0700
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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 25 Aug 1997 Volume: 8 Number: 916
Today's topics:
cardinality of an array given a reference <newman@ttd.teradyne.com>
Re: cardinality of an array given a reference (Tad McClellan)
Re: Converting text to Excel data with UNIX <Brian.Ewins@dont.spam.me>
Easy Question: Dont Care. (the Thief of Always)
Re: Error creating files (Dave Schenet)
having a Perl script time out <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>
Re: having a Perl script time out (Josh Purinton)
Re: Help on Final Exam (Perl class) (Jeff Stampes)
HELP!!On Exception Handling <ajiteshd@wiproge.med.ge.com>
Re: HTML-TEXT <Brian.Ewins@dont.spam.me>
install cron program through cgi (Wei Tang)
last line of a @list... (Bert ten Cate)
mod_javascript proposal agfoust@usa.net
Multithreading in Perl? (Oddfellow)
Not so dumb Newbie question (Wipeout)
Re: Not so dumb Newbie question (Daniel E. Macks)
Oddities with -t and POSIX::satty (Greg Ward)
Override a .pm with a local one? (James L. McGill)
Re: Override a .pm with a local one? (Daniel E. Macks)
Passing the output to a variable (Wei Tang)
Registry & Environment variables <ahr@hotmail.com>
Re: Win95 from a very definite newbie... help please (Jeremy D. Zawodny)
Re: Win95 from a very definite newbie... help please (Danny Aldham)
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:00:24 -0500
From: Aaron Newman <newman@ttd.teradyne.com>
Subject: cardinality of an array given a reference
Message-Id: <3400A0E8.4E34@ttd.teradyne.com>
Hello, friends. I am wondering about finding the cardinality of an
array given a reference to the array. I am trying to do this in one
statement, dereferencing it and getting the cardinality at the same
time. For example,
$arref=["one","two"];
@ar=@$arref;
print "cardinality is ",$#ar,"\n";
Is there a way to do this without first creating @ar? I can't seem to
work it out syntactically. Perl chokes on $#@$arref, and $#(@$arref)
doesn't work either.
Thanks,
Aaron
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 23:30:57 -0500
From: tadmc@flash.net (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: cardinality of an array given a reference
Message-Id: <1q1rt5.agt.ln@localhost>
Aaron Newman (newman@ttd.teradyne.com) wrote:
: Hello, friends. I am wondering about finding the cardinality of an
: array given a reference to the array. I am trying to do this in one
: statement, dereferencing it and getting the cardinality at the same
: time. For example,
: $arref=["one","two"];
: @ar=@$arref;
: print "cardinality is ",$#ar,"\n";
print "cardinality is ",$#{@$arref},"\n";
: Is there a way to do this without first creating @ar? I can't seem to
: work it out syntactically. Perl chokes on $#@$arref, and $#(@$arref)
: doesn't work either.
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@flash.net Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:56:57 +0100
From: Brian Ewins <Brian.Ewins@dont.spam.me>
Subject: Re: Converting text to Excel data with UNIX
Message-Id: <34004BB9.14E7@dont.spam.me>
Scott McMahan wrote:
>
> Some guy wrote:
>
> : Could somebody point me to some information on a Perl routine that
> : converts tab delimited text data in native Excel format?
>
> No.
>
> Such a portable routine would be almost impossible to achieve, since
> "native Excel format" is an OLE storage, which you couldn't recreate on
> a non-Windows platform. You'd have to recreate the entire storage
> subsystem to write a properly formatted file.
Somebody has already done it ;o) . In perl, yet. The 'LAOLA' package
is an OLE wrapper library for non-windows platforms. See:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/laola.html
However, your comments about the storage format vs API are correct,
and I agree that you shouldnt even *think* about converting to a
proprietary format when interchange formats that Excel can read exist.
(including the tab delimited data you want to convert from).
Its just annoying that Word/Excel users seem to think that those
*are* interchange formats, and dump them in my email....ack!
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 03:23:45 GMT
From: omard@blue.seas.upenn.edu (the Thief of Always)
Subject: Easy Question: Dont Care.
Message-Id: <5tqts1$ole$1@netnews.upenn.edu>
whats the dont care variable as in.
($wanted, ______I DONT GIVE A SHIT ___) = split (/&/,$_);
^^^^^^ This is what I'm looking for.
yeah I know I can do it with just a /(/d*)#/;
but I wanna do it the hard way. Obviously I cant
look it up in a reference 'cause I dont know the name.
So, I'ld appreciate it if you just took a second, winged some email
my way and let me know what precisely is the name of the I-Dont-Care
variable.
omard
--
Never take a strangers advice, Never let a friend fool you twice,
Never be the first to believe, never be the last to deceive...
____________The City of Suffering_____________ omard@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~omard/welcome.shtml shade@resurrection.com
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 04:35:33 GMT
From: shodan@shodan.erols.com (Dave Schenet)
Subject: Re: Error creating files
Message-Id: <5tr22l$ijo@winter.news.erols.com>
Martin Fischer (mf@fishbone.ruhr.de) wrote:
: Arthur Merar <amerar@unsu.com> wrote:
: >I have a script that is supposed to create some files during it's
: >process. When I run the script from the shell, everything works fine.
: >but when I invoke it from the browser, it dies trying to create the
: >file??
: >What do the rights need to be on the directory? Right now I have them
: >set at 755......What else could it be besides the rights? I mean, it I
: >open the file for output and it does not exist, then perl should create
: >it, right?
: You set it to 755, that means the owner can read, write and execute,
: group and world can only read and execute. If you execute the script
: from the shell, it is running under your id, when you invoke it from
: a browser as CGI-script it runs under the id of your www server. So
: chmod the dir to 777 and it should work.
And a slightly more secure method, if there are multiple users on your
system, is to chown the directory to the EUID of your webserver, and keep
the permissions 755. That way, other system users can't write to the dir,
only the webserver process can. (If you're on a system that's only a
webserver with no users who actually log into it, then 777 will work fine.
But I'm somewhat paranoid by nature, so..)
--Dave
: ciao
: Martin
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:41:45 -0400
From: Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: having a Perl script time out
Message-Id: <wo0BH9y00WBM08PUg0@andrew.cmu.edu>
I have a Perl script that reads and writes to STDIN, but actually
through tcpserver which binds STDIN to an incoming TCP/IP connection and
STDOUT out through that connection.
Now I'm having a problem as follows, which goes like
while(<STDIN>)
{
do stuff;
last if /^blah/);
}
some other stuff;
exit;
After a while of running this server, I find a lot of processes hanging
for hours, even though the actual script takes a few milliseconds. I
figure that somehow the request is malformed and STDIN is left open or
something. Is there any way I can 'time out' these scripts so they exit
if X seconds
has passed out?
Aveek
[ Network Administrator itc.cmu.edu and Monolith Internet Services ml.org ]
[ Web'n'PGP @ datta.ml.org | Graduating Dec 1997 ...................... ]
| I'm on vacation till August 22, so expect slow responses from me. |
\ require 'std-disclaimer.pl'; /
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Date: 24 Aug 1997 19:52:38 -0700
From: joshp@silmaril.com (Josh Purinton)
Subject: Re: having a Perl script time out
Message-Id: <5tqs1m$eq6$1@shell3.ba.best.com>
[ posted and mailed ]
The one and only Aveek Datta <MoNoLiTH+@CMU.EDU> writes:
> After a while of running this server, I find a lot of processes
> hanging for hours, even though the actual script takes a few
> milliseconds. I figure that somehow the request is malformed and
> STDIN is left open or something. Is there any way I can 'time out'
> these scripts so they exit if X seconds has passed out?
The easiest way, assuming you want 'some other stuff' to be executed
whether or not the server times out, is probably to write it as:
$SIG{ALRM} = sub { goto DONE };
my $timeout = 30; # seconds to wait for line of input
alarm $timeout;
while(<STDIN>) {
do stuff;
last if /^blah/;
alarm $timeout; # reset alarm
}
DONE: {
some other stuff;
}
exit;
For more info, see the perlfunc manual page under alarm(). This is
also covered in the faq.
--Josh
--
Josh Purinton <joshp@silmaril.com>
Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's alot better
than what we have now. -- Eric Sheppard (ce1zzes@prism.gatech.edu)
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 01:49:41 GMT
From: stampes@xilinx.com (Jeff Stampes)
Subject: Re: Help on Final Exam (Perl class)
Message-Id: <5tqobm$ada$1@neocad.com>
Mike Elliott (mre@emerald.compata.com) wrote:
: I'm going to be teaching a ten-week Programming in Perl class next
: year, and I'd like to make the Final Exam a Perl project. As this is
: University Extension, I can't expect more than perhaps 30 to 40 total
: hours (per student) expended on it spread out over the quarter.
: What I'm looking for are suggestions as to what the problem should be.
It's dependant on what you are teaching them. The exam project
should include some aspect of most of what theyhave been taught. So
how deep do you go? Basic control and functions? Modules?
Overloaded functions? If you posted a breied summary of the
syllabus, you could get more suggestions probably.
Cheers,
Jeff
--
Jeff Stampes -- Xilinx, Inc. -- Boulder, CO -- jeff.stampes@xilinx.com
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 11:27:18 -0530
From: Ajitesh Das <ajiteshd@wiproge.med.ge.com>
Subject: HELP!!On Exception Handling
Message-Id: <340067EE.41C6@wiproge.med.ge.com>
Folks,
I haven't use OO PERL way of exception handling.
Can anybody post/sends me some URL/sample code for that?
It will be a GREAT help for me.
Hope to hear from you soon
Thanks in advance for taking your time.
--
Rgds
Ajitesh
----
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---
"Golden Rule: never derive from a concrete class "
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:07:33 +0100
From: Brian Ewins <Brian.Ewins@dont.spam.me>
Subject: Re: HTML-TEXT
Message-Id: <34007865.EA5@dont.spam.me>
Xu Chu wrote:
>
> yeah, i am looking for this too. anyone who has the stuff pls send me one copy too. thx.
Nope, its going to the newsgroup.
>
> <b>Michael (Sandman) Sandler</b> <sandler@ren.eecis.udel.edu> wrote:
> : Before I re-invent the wheel:
>
> : Does anyone have a utility to strip the HTML stuff out of
> : text (I want to use to read E-Mail that comes from stupid
> : people). I can write one but will not if I someone else has.
>
> : Mike Sandler
> : sandler@eecis.udel.edu
perl -e 'print map {s/<.*?>//sg;$_} (join "",<>);' stoopid.html
... does it for me. Or at least, it does as much as you're
going to get in one line...
Known bugs: you can throw this off by having broken tags in
html comments. also, it doesnt format the text.
I think Tom C. had an article on HTML regexps in the Perl Journal,
go find it, if you want to see something more complete. Personally,
I read my mail in XEmacs and I get along just dandy.
Incidentally, of the two of you who dislike html in the mail,
who put the bold tags around Michael's name?
-<grin>Baz</grin>
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 06:42:15 GMT
From: wtang@cs.ualberta.ca (Wei Tang)
Subject: install cron program through cgi
Message-Id: <5tr9g7$l0l$1@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>
Hi,
I am trying to install a cron program through cgi perl scripts:
open(BUFFER, "|/usr/bin/crontab ");
print BUFFER "$mycronprog";
close(BUFFER);
It works on Unix command line, while it failed running through the Web.
It's urgent. Thanks for reply.
CC: wtang@cs.ualberta.ca
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Date: 23 Aug 97 22:26:46 GMT
From: bert@arsnova.xs4all.nl (Bert ten Cate)
Subject: last line of a @list...
Message-Id: <9c4_9708241313@arsnova.xs4all.nl>
I'm new to perl and have a question that might sound stupid, but I'm stuck so
here it goes...
I need to get the last line of @list into $lastline. Does anybody know how to
do this? Any help is appriciated...
Regards, Bert.
Bert ten Cate
Bert@arsnova.xs4all.nl
Fidonet: 2:283/307.52
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 00:01:31 -0600
From: agfoust@usa.net
Subject: mod_javascript proposal
Message-Id: <872484916.4642@dejanews.com>
I haven't followed these groups all that closely, so it's possible
that the following has already been proposed:
Develop a server-side javascript interpreter as an Apache extension
module. Use perl (mod_perl?) to implement the module.
Javascript on the server (embedded in the HTML pages) just makes
sense. Javascript has essentially "won" on the (web browser) client
side as the most widely used HTML-embedded scripting language. Not
that it's better than perl (perl folks will most likely continue to
use perl for server side scripting); most folks coming from the
HTML front end of things will just happen to know javascript, but
probably not perl. It just makes sense to leverage javascript
knowledge by extending the language to the server. General
database access and connectivity are *BIG* items in server-side
scripting (not merely dbm and msql access), for example. Any
server-side scripting language would have to provide high-level
database connectivity features (and HTTP state management via
cookies, etc). Netscape and Microsoft know this and they are
pursuing this aggressively in the Livewire and Active Server
Page products.
Perl seems like a good choice for the implementation of an
Apache module to drive server-side javascript (or ECMAscript,
or whatever...). Some obvious reasons are: RAD, the existence
of Perl5 modules such as DBI for database connectivity, and the
excellent support and value given by the apache and perl
communities. Perl code seems inherently easier to bug-fix,
enhance, and extend over time as well. (Also, Javascript 1.2
just added perl regular expressions, so that should be fairly
easy to implement *in* perl itself!)
Anyway, I personally do not have the time or expertise to
embark on a project to implement server-side javascript for
apache. But I think it's a good idea to seed (if this hasn't
already been proposed). I believe a standards and perl-based
server-side javascript module would be a "killer application"
for the Apache and Perl platforms and communities. I look
forward to hearing any discussion, good or bad, related to
the general idea presented in this message.
[Adam Foust] * agfoust@usa.net *
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 05:11:20 GMT
From: zen@execpc.com (Oddfellow)
Subject: Multithreading in Perl?
Message-Id: <5tr4bp$h3n@newsops.execpc.com>
I say multithreading because the two contexts of execution will have
access to the same memory area. I've read the perlguts, etc man pages
and have gotten the idea that multithreading using Perl has been
considered. What considerations do I need to make when doing
multithreading in perl? Since I got the idea that perl's stack is
global, and xsubs, etc make a local copy of it, how does the
resynchronization proceed and will it handle several threads using it
at once? Ie: how much of perl is threadsafe?
FYI: I'm trying to write an xsub to a library with callbacks, and that
library will call perl asynchronously (via the xsub, of course), and
possibly in several threads of execution.
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 17:13:40 -0800
From: AdamS@earthlink.net (Wipeout)
Subject: Not so dumb Newbie question
Message-Id: <AdamS-2408971713400001@pool043-max6.so-ca-us.dialup.earthlink.net>
I am using macperl 5.? on my macintosh computer. DON'T STOP READING YOU
IBMers!! It is a question about the language. I wanted to make a program
where a diolog box comes up and says "Wanna play a game?" the person has
the choice of saying "Yes" or "No" with yes defaulted. If the person
chooses yes then another dilog box says "Sorry I forgot I got to go eat!"
and thats the end. or if they choose no the the get a dilog box that says
"Fine i didn't want to play with you either :p" then te end. Take a look
at the source i got so far and tell me where i went wrong:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$begin = &MacPerl'Answer("Hello, would you like to play?", "OK",
"Cancel"), "\n";
$play = &MacPerl'Answer("Sorry, I forgot I got to eat."), "\n";
$jerk = &MacPerl'Answer("Fine didn't wanna play anyway."), "\n";
print $begin;
if ($begin == 1)
{
print $play;
}
if ($begin == 0)
{
print $jerk;
}
Thanks in advance!
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 03:27:53 GMT
From: dmacks@sas.upenn.edu (Daniel E. Macks)
Subject: Re: Not so dumb Newbie question
Message-Id: <5tqu3p$elg$1@netnews.upenn.edu>
Wipeout (AdamS@earthlink.net) said:
: I am using macperl 5.? on my macintosh computer. DON'T STOP READING YOU
: IBMers!! It is a question about the language. [...] Take a look
: at the source i got so far and tell me where i went wrong:
You're missing -w and use strict. You're also missing the error
message. As many folks will shortly point out in polite, rude, and/or
subtly humorous ways, first you gotta help yourself, and then you
gotta tell us what the symptoms of your problem are. System error
vs. perl compiler error vs. perl runtime error vs. incorrect
functionality? But anyway...
: $play = &MacPerl'Answer("Sorry, I forgot I got to eat."), "\n";
~~~~~~
Why are these here? What's TFM say for syntax or examples of
&MacPerl'Answer? Since they're outside the parens, they're not
passed to the sub, so you should look up the comma operator and
see what you're actually doing.
--
Daniel Macks
dmacks@a.chem.upenn.edu
dmacks@netspace.org
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 01:06:13 GMT
From: greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Greg Ward)
Subject: Oddities with -t and POSIX::satty
Message-Id: <5tqlq5$6pr@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
Hi all -- I'm having trouble figuring out just what -t and POSIX::isatty
are doing here; this is with Perl 5.004_02 under IRIX 5.3.
% perl5 -MIO::File -MPOSIX -de 1
DB<1> p -t STDOUT
1
DB<2> open (FOO, ">/tmp/foo") || warn
DB<3> p -t FOO
Ok, no trouble so far -- STDOUT is a tty, and /tmp/foo isn't. Big deal.
Now, how about this...
DB<4> open (TTY, ">/dev/tty") || warn
DB<5> p -t TTY
1
DB<6> $stdout = \*STDOUT
DB<7> p -t $$stdout
1
OK, good, still things working as expected. But if I try to use the
IO::File package, things stop working:
DB<6> $tty = new IO::File ">/dev/tty" or warn
DB<7> p -t $$tty
Likewise, POSIX::isatty disagrees with -t:
DB<11> p POSIX::isatty (STDOUT)
1
DB<12> p POSIX::isatty (TTY)
...so... any ideas what's going on here? What do I have to do to get
POSIX::isatty and/or -t to work consistently on filehandles, GLOB refs
of filehandles, and IO::File objects? Is it even possible?
Thanks --
Greg
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Date: 24 Aug 1997 21:09:53 -0500
From: fishbowl@fotd.netcomi.com (James L. McGill)
Subject: Override a .pm with a local one?
Message-Id: <5tqphh$bbf$1@fotd.netcomi.com>
Hello All!
I am developing a program which uses a
MODULE.pm file (one of mine) that lives
in /usr/lib/perl5/MODULE.pm
But, I want to be able to
use MODULE;
in my development versions but use a LOCAL
copy of MODULE.pm (in the current directory)
instead of the "real" one in lib/perl5.
I have tried messing with @INC and I have
checked the FAQ, man perlvar, and the pink and
blue camels, to no avail.
--
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You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports.
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 03:37:37 GMT
From: dmacks@sas.upenn.edu (Daniel E. Macks)
Subject: Re: Override a .pm with a local one?
Message-Id: <5tqum1$elg$2@netnews.upenn.edu>
James L. McGill (fishbowl@fotd.netcomi.com) said:
: But, I want to be able to
:
: use MODULE;
:
: in my development versions but use a LOCAL
: copy of MODULE.pm (in the current directory)
: instead of the "real" one in lib/perl5.
@INC is searched in order, and (usually:) puts the local directory
('.') last. Just 'use lib' the location of your local versions and
perl'll find 'em first. It's ok if '.' is in @INC a lot of times...not
sure if such things are optimized when run, but it's not gonna affect
the results.
dan
--
Daniel Macks
dmacks@a.chem.upenn.edu
dmacks@netspace.org
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks
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Date: 25 Aug 1997 05:46:04 GMT
From: wtang@cs.ualberta.ca (Wei Tang)
Subject: Passing the output to a variable
Message-Id: <5tr66s$i54$1@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>
Hi, there:
I want to pass the output of a shell program to a perl variable in a CGI
script. I tried $buf = `shell_prog`; though it did work in Unix shell
command line, it didn't work through a CGI script.
Is there a way out?
Thanks.
Please CC: wtang@cs.ualberta.ca
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 06:11:52 -0500
From: Agnes Hepson Reji <ahr@hotmail.com>
Subject: Registry & Environment variables
Message-Id: <340016F8.630E@hotmail.com>
Hi ,
I am couple of days into perl . i am writing some perl scripts which
can be used in at least 3 platforms .
In NT I am setting a vartable called "ProjectName". It does not get
reflected in my command window untill I do one of the two things :
1. Log of and login again
2. go to control panel then system and just hit the OK button
The first one is out-of-question . The second one , I spied , sends a
WM_WININICHANGE message . I guess SendMessage ( HWND_BROADCAST ,
WM_INICHANGE , OL , (LPARAM) "Environment");
How to I make my Environment variable changes in the registry to reflect
in the command window I am working on ? Any pointers will help.
Thanks in Advance
AgenesHepsonReji
=================
Change is constant
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 00:58:30 GMT
From: jzawodn@wcnet.org (Jeremy D. Zawodny)
Subject: Re: Win95 from a very definite newbie... help please
Message-Id: <3400d889.626745852@news.bgsu.edu>
[original author automagically cc'd via e-mail]
On 24 Aug 1997 23:00:12 GMT, "Martin Smallridge"
<catflap@geocities.com> wrote:
>Ok.. simple question really.. I'm running win95 on a pentium 120 and for
>the life of me can't work out what the heck an intelx86 build or alpha
>build is.. so for starters I'm buggered.
>
>So: could you help by telling me
>1. which perl build / type do I need to get
The Perl for Win32 latest build.
>2. how do I install it successfully?
It installs itself.
>3. are there any plans for a win95 faq which idiots like me who only know
>how to program basic (so far) can read and understand without getting the
>screaming heebie jeebies..
Perl for Win32 and the docs, FAQ, etc. are all available from
http://www.activesite.com/
Jeremy
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Jeremy D. Zawodny
WCNet Technical Geek & Web Stuff
<URL:http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/>
"That's an example of how Perl can bring school yard cruelty to new heights."
-- Jon Orwant at the 1st Annual Perl Conference
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Date: 24 Aug 1997 19:40:57 -0700
From: danny@lennon.postino.com (Danny Aldham)
Subject: Re: Win95 from a very definite newbie... help please
Message-Id: <5tqrbp$igk$1@lennon.postino.com>
Martin Smallridge (catflap@geocities.com) wrote:
: Ok.. simple question really.. I'm running win95 on a pentium 120 and for
: the life of me can't work out what the heck an intelx86 build or alpha
: build is.. so for starters I'm buggered.
: So: could you help by telling me
: 1. which perl build / type do I need to get
: 2. how do I install it successfully?
: 3. are there any plans for a win95 faq which idiots like me who only know
: how to program basic (so far) can read and understand without getting the
: screaming heebie jeebies..
A Pentium is an Intel chip, don't ya know? So get the intel version
of the package at www.activeware.com.
--
Danny Aldham SCO Ace , MCSE , JAPH , DAD
I don't need to hide my e-mail address, I broke my sendmail.
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