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Thu Feb 19 22:11:29 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 19:01:44 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Thu, 19 Feb 1998 Volume: 8 Number: 1936
Today's topics:
Re: Perl and ODBC32 problems <rothd@xrxoxtxhx.xnxextX>
perl5.003 fine, perl5.00404 fails "make test" (Chad Dubuque)
Re: Prisoners of the evil empire (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Re: regexp question <rra@stanford.edu>
Re: REMOTE_HOST <webmaster@fccj.cc.fl.us>
Re: rename error (Cross-device link) <rra@stanford.edu>
Re: Retrieving mail from host <gtupper@nosc.mil>
Re: RTFM ??? <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Running SQL from within Perl <akil1@mindspring.com>
Re: Running SQL from within Perl (Clay Irving)
Script will not connect to database when run by IIS (Scott D. Gregory)
Re: stripping C:\this\that\file.txt on form uploads (Martien Verbruggen)
Re: SYSTEM command - How do you return data to the brow <skwong@matson.com>
Re: Taint / exec / stderr <rra@stanford.edu>
Test for the Kid <soc2@earthlink.net>
Re: ts: Remove files in a PERL sript (Jonathan Feinberg)
Re: ts: Remove files in a PERL sript (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Re: Verifying a URL? (Billy Chambless)
Re: Verifying a URL? (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Re: Verifying a URL? (Jonathan Feinberg)
Re: Verifying a URL? (Abigail)
Re: Verifying a URL? (Abigail)
Re: Win32::AdminMisc::UserGetMiscAttributes - help- Req <rothd@xrxoxtxhx.xnxextX>
Re: Year 10000 Compliance <colin@medit3d.com>
Re: Year 2000 Compliance: Lawyers, Liars, and Perl <dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 8 Mar 97) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:16:17 GMT
From: "Dave Roth" <rothd@xrxoxtxhx.xnxextX>
Subject: Re: Perl and ODBC32 problems
Message-Id: <01bd3d9d$71d13de0$0101a8c0@main2>
d2dcblu@fre.fsu.umd.edu wrote in article
<6cfvbo$hks$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> I'm getthing the "Can't locate Win32/ODBC.pm in @INC at test,pl line 1"
error
> that seems to be quite popular. I got on the ODBC32 FAQ and it said to
check
> to make sure that ODBC.PM is in the [perl directory]\lib\win32\
directory.
> It's there. Then the FAQ says to check the registry for a value of
PRIVLIB:
> RegSZ: C:\Perl\Lib. I have my Perl in a subdirectory of the WindowsNT
service
> pack (NTRESKIT). And the registry setting refers to the appropriate
directory
> (c:\NTRESKIT\Perl\Lib). So I am at a loss as to why I am still getting an
> error so if anybody can please help me, I'd be very happy.
The problem has to do with your perl configuration. You may want to try
reinstalling Win32 Perl and run the setup script. Newer version of
ActiveState's perl use a different registry key.
dave
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 19:14:34 -0600
From: cdubuque@rrnet.com (Chad Dubuque)
Subject: perl5.003 fine, perl5.00404 fails "make test"
Message-Id: <6cildq$du8$1@rrnet.com>
Trying to install the latest and greatest, (5.00404,) I've come across an
odd problem: "make test" is failing at one (and only one) test. The
"lib/io_xs.t" test fails test 3. Tests 1, 2, and 4 finish successfully.
The weird thing is that perl5.003 compiles just fine. I'm assuming this has
to do with the new "IO" extension that is always included by default.
Any ideas?
Here's the output of ./myconfig distributed with perl:
$ ./myconfig
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) configuration:
Platform:
osname=bsdos, osvers=2.0, archname=i386-bsdos
uname='bsdos host.name.com 2.0 bsdi bsdos 2.0 kernel #1: wed jun 18
11:53:12 cdt 1997 me@host.name.com:usrsrcsyscompilehost+sockets i386 '
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
bincompat3=y useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.6.3
cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /shlib /usr/lib /usr/X11/lib
libs=-lrpc -lcurses -ltermcap -lXpm -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext
-lX11 -lm -lc
libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=o
useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=''
--
Chad Dubuque cdubuque@rrnet.com Fargo, N.D. (USA)
Red River Net - Internet Communications http://www.rrnet.com/
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 22:27:56 GMT
From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Subject: Re: Prisoners of the evil empire
Message-Id: <6ciblc$56n@fridge.shore.net>
Plastic Nuclear Ferret (donut@bayarea.net) wrote:
: what about fvwm95?
>From what I can tell, fvwm95 is a sick joke played on folks who
wouldn't use Linux/FreeBSD/etc/X otherwise. From what I understand,
(thankfully) you can turn off the Start menu.
--
Nathan V. Patwardhan
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 17:44:26 -0800
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: rasta@spacestar.com (Rasta Kyle)
Subject: Re: regexp question
Message-Id: <m3vhubgidh.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
[ Posted and mailed. ]
Rasta Kyle <rasta@spacestar.com> writes:
> $fullname =~ s/^[^,]*-(.*)\(.*/$1/ || $fullname =~ s/'.*//;
> if ($fullname =~ /&/) { #you don't want to know
> My first question is why would you put a comment like "you don't want to
> know" in a book teaching someone the laguage?"
No, probably not, without at least explaining it in a footnote. I imagine
the reason is humorous, though. (I'm not sure what it is, beyond the fact
that & is a shell metacharacter.)
> Second question is .....I understand the first line but what is the & in
> this expression? Is it litterally an "&" or does it represent a variable
> I cannot find in the camel book or the O'Reilly book on Regular
> Expressions?
Literally a &.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
$^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{
rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:56:28 -0500
From: Bill Jones <webmaster@fccj.cc.fl.us>
Subject: Re: REMOTE_HOST
Message-Id: <34ECD4BC.7F46B53@fccj.cc.fl.us>
Also, you may wish to look into CGI.pm, included with Perl 5.004
:-)
Bill
Steve wrote:
> How do i have a script log your ip address so it looks like for
> example this: p9.ts3.lowel.MA.tiac.com instead of 207.60.164.74
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 17:11:45 -0800
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: Douglas Clifton <doug@weboneinc.com>
Subject: Re: rename error (Cross-device link)
Message-Id: <m3en0zhyge.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
[ Posted and mailed. ]
Douglas Clifton <doug@weboneinc.com> writes:
> When trying to rename (back-up) a file on the same HD, same partition
> same filesystem and same directory `rename' dies with:
> Cross-device link # errno EXDEV
> Works fine from the command line.
The rename() call in Perl does the same thing as the C library function,
which doesn't work when trying to move files across file system
boundaries. The command "mv" tries a rename() call first and, if that
doesn't work, copies the file and then deletes it.
If you want the functionality of mv in a Perl script, probably the best
way to do that is to use File::Copy's move() call.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
$^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{
rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:55:51 GMT
From: "Greg Tupper" <gtupper@nosc.mil>
Subject: Re: Retrieving mail from host
Message-Id: <01bd3d91$ef5e0330$f1b722cc@0044>
You might try an alias to a perlscript as majordomo has done.
Remember, mail will have a blank line between the header and the message
body and you could strip the header using this.
Greg
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:56:43 GMT
From: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Subject: Re: RTFM ???
Message-Id: <887939803.32336@cabal>
In <34EBAE34.E5C4C7DF@spider.herston.uq.edu.au> Jaime Metcher <metcher@spider.herston.uq.edu.au> writes:
[...]
>But in all those thousands of people - they *never* came across
>one like this!". Computer support is like psychiatry - you get to see
>inside people's minds and man, is it bizarre!
Hence perl's "there is more then one way" attatude to programming. You
allow peaple to do really really wierd things in perl. As it says in the
cammel perl dosn't smash down your mind space to fit in with what it
wishes to be.
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Support NoCeM http://www.cm.org/
I'm sorry but I just don't consider 'because its yucky' a convincing argument
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 20:10:42 -0500
From: "Kevin Bass" <akil1@mindspring.com>
Subject: Running SQL from within Perl
Message-Id: <6cil8s$42o@camel12.mindspring.com>
How can I run a SQL program or script from within Perl? Please supply
syntax and/or an example.
Kevin
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 21:30:30 -0500
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: Running SQL from within Perl
Message-Id: <6cips6$2qr@panix.com>
In <6cil8s$42o@camel12.mindspring.com> "Kevin Bass" <akil1@mindspring.com> writes:
>How can I run a SQL program or script from within Perl? Please supply
>syntax and/or an example.
See: http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI/
--
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http://www.panix.com/~clay/
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:54:41 GMT
From: sgregory@crosslink.net (Scott D. Gregory)
Subject: Script will not connect to database when run by IIS
Message-Id: <34ecc61b.2672750@news.crosslink.net>
I recently installed Perl 5.004_02 (I think it was the Gurusamy
Sarathy port) on Win NT 4 server. I also installed DBI and the ODBC
DBD (version .91 and .16 respectively). I have made the appropriate
registry changes for using perl with IIS (version 3).
I have a script that creates dynamic web pages from a MS Access 97
database. When I run the script from the command line it runs great,
connects the database, pulls the proper information and returns a HTML
page. Whenever I run the script from the web server it dies whenever
it tries to connect to the database with the following error:
Can't connect to afpubs: [Microsoft][ODBC Access 97 ODBC driver
Driver]General error Unable to open registry key 'DriverId'.
(SQL-S1000)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\elec\auto.pl line 105.
Line 105 reads as follows (it was borrowed from the documentation):
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$data_source") || die "Can't connect
to $data_source: $DBI::errstr";
$data_source = "afpubs" and is set at the beginning of the script.
afpubs has also been set up in the ODBC section of the control panel
as a DSN.
As I said before, this script works great when I run it from the
command line and feed it the parameters to decide what page to create.
The script does work great when run from IIS if it does not have to
access the database. And, I know IIS is passing the script the proper
parameters since it is trying to access the database.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can assist me in resolving this
problem. If needed, I will post the whole script.
Thanks,
Scott
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 23:44:33 GMT
From: mgjv@comdyn.com.au (Martien Verbruggen)
Subject: Re: stripping C:\this\that\file.txt on form uploads
Message-Id: <6cig51$s00$1@comdyn.comdyn.com.au>
In article <6chuif$a0m@news3.euro.net>,
<soul@explorer.com> writes:
> can anybody do better than this mess?!
use CGI;
use File::Basename;
...
$fn = $query->param('uploaded_file');
# figure out what sort of syntax you have, by counting \, / and :
$fs_type = get_fs_type($fn);
# Once you know it:
fileparse_set_fstype($fs_type);
($name,$path,$suffix) = fileparse($fn, '\..*');
sub get_fs_type
{
my $fn = shift;
# I'm sure you can do this yourself, using tr// and some
# if statements
}
Martien
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Webmaster www.tradingpost.com.au | That's not a lie, it's a terminological
Commercial Dynamics Pty. Ltd. | inexactitude.
NSW, Australia |
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:15:15 -0800
From: sam wong <skwong@matson.com>
To: rickryan@datrixnet.com
Subject: Re: SYSTEM command - How do you return data to the browser?
Message-Id: <34ECCB13.2D91060A@matson.com>
you should be able to preface the system call with HTTP headers and as long as
the .exe writes to stdout, this should work. i am able to send a pdf file back
to the browser this way.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
system (something.exe);
Rick Ryan wrote:
> I'm using the SYSTEM command to run an external .exe file on my NT server.
> Is there any way to have the output of the called program return directly to
> the browser or back to my perl script? I've tried it several different ways
> and the only thing I can get to work is to write the information back to a
> file, then use the perl script to open and read the contents of that file.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --
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> Datrix Voice : 615-822-7829
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 17:08:57 -0800
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: deviss@cisa.bt.co.uk (Ian Steel)
Subject: Re: Taint / exec / stderr
Message-Id: <m3iuqbhyl2.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
[ Posted and mailed. ]
Ian Steel <deviss@cisa.bt.co.uk> writes:
> I've just spotted 'open3' in the docs...is this what I should use? I'm
> concerned to know whether this will start up a shell though as I'm
> trying to avoid shell calls in this CGI perl program.
If you pass the command to IPC::Open3::open3() as a list, it won't invoke
a shell.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
$^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{
rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:31:19 -0800
From: Mike <soc2@earthlink.net>
Subject: Test for the Kid
Message-Id: <34ECCED6.650EA457@earthlink.net>
Test
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:03:58 -0500
From: jdf@pobox.com (Jonathan Feinberg)
Subject: Re: ts: Remove files in a PERL sript
Message-Id: <MPG.f56684926f5bdb989710@news.concentric.net>
soul@explorer.com said...
: the reason people are asking questions that are in the faq and the
: manpages is because the manpages are way technical and half the
: time don't explain stuff thoroughly!
Hey, D00D, like, programming is a way technical thing to do! It's EL1TE!!!
Tom Christiansen is EL1TE!! Yah, the manpages totally 5UCK!!! Unix SUX!!!
Also, where can I go for some real Perl WAREZ? The stuff at
http://www.perl.com is free anyway, so you can't CRACK it!!
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -w -- Just another Perl hacker,
(open 0),$_=<0>,s,.*-+ ,,,chop;for(split?@*?){($$_++or$}=$_,y,
y \,y,<STDIN>,,eval"sub $_ {print'$}'}"),y,} \,},>STDOUT,,&$_}
# Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:13:34 GMT
From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Subject: Re: ts: Remove files in a PERL sript
Message-Id: <6cilbu$fjn@fridge.shore.net>
soul@explorer.com wrote:
: the reason people are asking questions that are in the faq and the
: manpages is because the manpages are way technical and half the
: time don't explain stuff thoroughly!
Heh. The reason that you (or whomever you're trying to agree with)
don't get it is because you're a non-technical person reading
(technical) doc. I don't think that you have standing to address
thoroughness with this admission of yours.
This statement reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons when they let
Homer design a car.
--
Nathan V. Patwardhan
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 00:02:59 GMT
From: billy@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless)
Subject: Re: Verifying a URL?
Message-Id: <6cih7j$moc$1@nntp.msstate.edu>
In article <6cibg0$56n@fridge.shore.net>, nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) writes:
|> Stewart Eastham (sme@planetpod.com) wrote:
|> : working to check URLs. Here's another question along the same lines. Is
|> : it possible to verify the validity of an email address using a similiar
|> : method?
|> Is it possible to verify that someone has read the Perl documentation
|> and FAQs before playing with Usenet? ;-)
No, only that they haven't.
--
* "And there _is_ a real world. In fact, some of you
* are in it right now." -- Gene Spafford
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Date: 19 Feb 1998 22:25:04 GMT
From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Subject: Re: Verifying a URL?
Message-Id: <6cibg0$56n@fridge.shore.net>
Stewart Eastham (sme@planetpod.com) wrote:
: working to check URLs. Here's another question along the same lines. Is
: it possible to verify the validity of an email address using a similiar
: method?
Is it possible to verify that someone has read the Perl documentation
and FAQs before playing with Usenet? ;-)
--
Nathan V. Patwardhan
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:20:40 -0500
From: jdf@pobox.com (Jonathan Feinberg)
Subject: Re: Verifying a URL?
Message-Id: <MPG.f566c2f780849bb989711@news.concentric.net>
[courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
sme@planetpod.com said...
: Here's another question along the same lines. Is
: it possible to verify the validity of an email address using a similiar
: method?
This is an often discussed topic. You might even say it's a "frequently asked
question." Check out perlfaq9, "How do I check a valid email address?"
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -w -- Just another Perl hacker,
(open 0),$_=<0>,s,.*-+ ,,,chop;for(split?@*?){($$_++or$}=$_,y,
y \,y,<STDIN>,,eval"sub $_ {print'$}'}"),y,} \,},>STDOUT,,&$_}
# Jonathan Feinberg jdf@pobox.com Sunny Brooklyn, NY
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:28:05 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Verifying a URL?
Message-Id: <6cim75$633$7@client3.news.psi.net>
Stewart Eastham (sme@planetpod.com) wrote on 1633 September 1993 in
<URL: news:34EC8411.9E4B115@planetpod.com>:
++
++
++ Stewart Eastham wrote:
++
++ > Is there a way to verify a URL exists using PERL? I looked into the
++ > Net::Ping module, but that only verifies hosts, instead of actual web
++ > pages.
++ >
++ > stewart eastham
++ > sme@planetpod.com
++
++ Thanks for all the good info guys. I used the LWP module and I got it
++ working to check URLs. Here's another question along the same lines. Is
++ it possible to verify the validity of an email address using a similiar
++ method?
No. Read the FAQ. And since email addresses can be used to create
URLs, that also means you cannot validate URLs.
Abigail
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perl -wleprint -eqq-@{[ -eqw\\- -eJust -eanother -ePerl -eHacker -e\\-]}-
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:33:01 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Verifying a URL?
Message-Id: <6cimgd$633$8@client3.news.psi.net>
Plastic Nuclear Ferret (donut@bayarea.net) wrote on 1633 September 1993
in <URL: news:6ci8fi$ouc$1@news.bayarea.net>:
++
++
++ you could attempt to open up a telnet connection to the SMTP server
You can't reach mars.ic.iaf.nl over the internet. Or rather, when that
machine still existed you couldn't reach it over the internet. Yet mail
send to abigail@mars.ic.iaf.nl still gets delivered. Even though it
might take a day or two.
Get a clue on how mail works.
Abigail
--
perl -wleprint -eqq-@{[ -eqw+ -eJust -eanother -ePerl -eHacker -e+]}-
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 01:13:26 GMT
From: "Dave Roth" <rothd@xrxoxtxhx.xnxextX>
Subject: Re: Win32::AdminMisc::UserGetMiscAttributes - help- Requested Example!!
Message-Id: <01bd3d9d$0c3658d0$0101a8c0@main2>
yuval yosef <yosefy@iil.intel.com> wrote in article
<34EC6470.ACDADEEA@iil.intel.com>...
> Hello all!
>
> I've installed AdminMisc Module ver 971022, I looked the documentation
> @www.roth.net but some how while the documents state that the use is:
>
> %Hash = UserGetMiscAttributes($Domain, $User) ;
>
> I get this form shell:
>
> Usage: NT::AdminMisc::UserGetMiscAttributes($Domain, $User,
> \%Attribs) ;
>
> I replaced NT with Win32, but still getting an undef!!!
Try:
Win32::AdminMisc::UserGetMiscAttributes($Domain, $User, \%Hash);
I know, I should fix the docs. :)
dave
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:45:36 +0100
From: Colin Dooley <colin@medit3d.com>
Subject: Re: Year 10000 Compliance
Message-Id: <34ECC420.5BD46782@medit3d.com>
I'm looking forward to the year 10000 problem with interest.
Everybody is spending billions converting their software to use
four digit dates, and they're gonna have to do it all over again
in the year 9999....
Don't laugh! Jewish and Chinese computers must be nearing this
deadline already...
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Date: 20 Feb 1998 00:34:47 GMT
From: dannyman <dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Year 2000 Compliance: Lawyers, Liars, and Perl
Message-Id: <6cij37$59i$2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
In comp.lang.perl.misc RandallBart <Barticus@worldnet.att.spam.net> wrote:
> Steve Dover wrote:
>> Bart Lateur wrote:
>> > seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:
>> >
>> > >The struct tm has been Y2K-ready for a long time. I dread the 34,667
>> > >bug.
>> >
>> > Do you expect still to be alive by then? Or do you expect your programs
>> > still to be used? Really?
> There is no need to worry about software surviving until 34,667. Society
> will be destroyed by Y10k.
bear in mind that this application has not yet been thooughly tested ...
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