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Fri Jul 10 10:08:11 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 98 07:00:39 -0700
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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 10 Jul 1998 Volume: 8 Number: 3116
Today's topics:
Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of gettin <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of gettin <ljz@asfast.com>
Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of gettin (Alan Barclay)
Re: Announcing scripts on c.l.p.a [was: Re: new charter <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Re: Arrays (The Wildman)
Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: (I R A Aggie)
Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Re: Get IP Address for Server Name <westmj@esvax.dnet.dupont.com>
Re: HELP: Internet Database Design questions... <jdporter@min.net>
Re: How can you encrypt a CGI script on a server so it <westmj@esvax.dnet.dupont.com>
Re: need to code a delete function <info@aactionmortgage.net>
Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announ <quednauf@nortel.co.uk>
Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announ (Brand and Karina Hilton)
Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announ <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announ (Jeffrey R. Drumm)
Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announ <rra@stanford.edu>
Re: pattern matching results into an array <barnett@houston.Geco-Prakla.slb.com>
Re: Perl based Web-to-database system <jjunkin@datacrawler.com>
Perl installation (Version Perl 5.004_04) (0000)
Re: Perl Visual Debugger for Win32 <dturley@ravine.binary.net>
Re: UNC Filename Open for Output (Jeffrey R. Drumm)
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 8 Mar 97) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:12:57 GMT
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of getting the last modified file?)
Message-Id: <6o540p$kh2$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
[courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
In comp.lang.perl.misc,
gorilla@elaine.drink.com (Alan Barclay) writes:
:You can get the exact same variation in warnings by setting '-w'
:in PERL5OPT by default (eg in /etc/profile), and having users
:unset them if they want, or not doing this and having users set them
:if they want.
This is the kind of thing I do for my training environment.
--tom
--
Perl has grown from being a very good scripting language into something
like a cross between a universal solvent and an open-ended Mandarin
where new ideograms are invented hourly. --Jeffrey Davis
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 09:19:57 -0400
From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Subject: Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of getting the last modified file?)
Message-Id: <ltsok94zcy.fsf@asfast.com>
fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie) writes:
> In article <ltlnq25xfp.fsf@asfast.com>, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
>
> + This kind of software-development environment is clearly not a good
> + idea from a doing-software-right point of view, but from the long-term
> + dollars-and-cents perspective of the company owners, it sometimes
> + actually works, believe it or not.
>
> And this is an honest business? I would recommend *not* doing business
> with them. If they're willing to cut corners on the quality of their
> product, I'm sure they'll cut other corners, too.
I never said that their software is their product. The companies I'm
thinking of use software for purposes ancillatory to their primary
business ... such as for accounts payable, accounting, inventory
control, customer tracking, on-line sales, etc. I'm sure (because I
have seen this first hand) that many of these companies do *not* cut
corners in their primary products and services.
> And given an opportunity to screw you over, they will. As long as it
> comes out positive on the bottom line...
In the companies I'm referring to, the successful ones generally
deliver their products and services reliably, honestly, and with
reasonable prices to their customers. This is why they're successful.
In some of these companies, the management can see that spending extra
time and money to produce "correct" software will require them to
raise their prices for the things they *do* offer to their customers,
and given that their software works well enough for them over the long
run, they see no reason to change their policies.
Not every company which makes use of less-than-guru-level programmers
who write code that won't always pass Perl's `-w' tests is out to rip
off the public.
--
Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com
perl -e '$n=170;for($d=2;($d*$d)<=$n;$d+=(1+($d%2))){for($t=0;($n%$d)==0;
$t++){$n=int($n/$d);}while($t-->0){push(@r,$d);}}if($n>1){push(@r,$n);}
$x=0;map{$x+=(($_>0)?(1<<log($_-0.5)/log(2.0)+1):1)}@r;print"$x\n"'
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:42:21 GMT
From: gorilla@elaine.drink.com (Alan Barclay)
Subject: Re: -w on production code (was Re: better way of getting the last modified file?)
Message-Id: <900078134.284846@elaine.drink.com>
In article <6o540p$kh2$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
>
>In comp.lang.perl.misc,
> gorilla@elaine.drink.com (Alan Barclay) writes:
>:You can get the exact same variation in warnings by setting '-w'
>:in PERL5OPT by default (eg in /etc/profile), and having users
>:unset them if they want, or not doing this and having users set them
>:if they want.
>
>This is the kind of thing I do for my training environment.
>
Nice that you can do that. In my enviroment, I can't. I install perl,
but the sysadmin group installls users. Adding both options above would
give me the ability to default users when they use perl.
It still seems to me that adding these two options would be a win win
solution.
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:38:15 GMT
From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing scripts on c.l.p.a [was: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce]
Message-Id: <8chg0paksb.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com>
>>>>> "William" == William R Ward <hermit@cats.ucsc.edu> writes:
William> Programs written in Perl belong on comp.lang.perl.announce in
William> the same way that programs written in C would belong on
William> comp.lang.c.announce (if such a group existed, anyway). I
William> believe it should only be accepted for c.l.p.a if it is of
William> benefit to perl *programmers* - a new CGI.pm would be OK, but
William> a new shopping cart utility wouldn't (unless it was a
William> shopping cart library that could be used by other Perl
William> programs).
Those that have posted to CLPA have seen my autoreply message,
which includes this interpretation guideline:
(5) for software, the article must be describing something in which
the fact that it is *written* in Perl is significant (in other words,
a tool that could just as easily be in Object Oriented COBOL as far
as the users are concerned *does not* qualify), and
Now, if I had rejected an article on that basis, and someone had come
back and said "but it meets the basic charter", I would have gone soft
and posted it. That's never happened. And yes, I've rejected a dozen
posts or so in three years failed to meet this guideline.
William> It might be a good idea to have some kind of automated "what's new in
William> CPAN" report that gets posted to c.l.p.a, perhaps weekly or
William> semimonthly? It could contain a short description (up to one or two
William> paragraphs) of each new upload along with the author and perhaps a URL
William> where more information could be obtained.
Shoot, as far as I'm concerned, every single CPAN upload could get a
separate post... it wouldn't be more than 1-2 messages a day. Most of
the time, things get added to CPAN with *no* CLPA post... I know, I
watch the CPAN's RECENT-print pretty closely.
print "Just another Perl newsgroup moderator,"
--
Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying
Email: <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@teleport.com)
Web: <A HREF="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/">My Home Page!</A>
Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:15:01 GMT
From: the_wildman_98@hotmail.com (The Wildman)
Subject: Re: Arrays
Message-Id: <slrn6qc5p5.n2k.the_wildman_98@foobar.net>
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:12:15 +0100, Wildman's eyes rolled up in his head and
froth dripped from his fangs when Simon Fairey
<simonf@conduit.co.uk> said the following fighting words:
>Well apart from the fact that MAX should be something like $MAX I can't see
>a problem with the code, either way I would suggest reading the perldsc,
>perldata and perllol for useful info.
>
That was a typo. If I go through another loop, this time with
print $array[$i],"\n";
it prints the same value. Making me think that I am not dealing with an
array at all.
--
The Wildman - wildman at microserve dot net
Do NOT reply to this post! All mail sent to the From/Reply-To will be
considered spam, and handled appropriately.
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:56:31 +0100
From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: Re: Is perl5-porters closed to subscription?
Message-Id: <8790m1n9ts.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
Russ> Copyright violations are, so far as I know, always civil
Russ> complaints,
Not true in either the US or UK, though I doubt that a criminal case
could be made in either for Usenet posts or email.
Basically, willful copyright violation for commercial or private
financial gain may be a criminal offence.
Russ> you would have to sue for damages; under most circumstances,
Russ> the damages aren't going to exist, so the lawsuit isn't going
Russ> to be possible.
Hmm.
Warning: I Am Not A Lawyer, what follows should be considered purely
as specualtion:
In the US, you can sue for statutory damages (amount decided by the
court within a range set by law) without having to prove actual
damages. Also, and this could be an issue for DejaNews, you can sue
to recover the infringer's profits.
Now a US resident can't sue in the US for statutory damages unless the
infringed work was registered with the US Copyright Office within
prescribed time intervals, but this doesn't apply (thanks to the Berne
Convention's "no formalities" rule) to actions brought by a resident of
another Berne Convention country.
--
Andrew.
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:59:53 -0500
From: fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie)
Subject: Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: Re: Is perl5-porters closed to subscription?
Message-Id: <fl_aggie-1007980859530001@aggie.coaps.fsu.edu>
In article <6o4tee$k5i$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, birgitt@my-dejanews.com wrote:
+ Is it a matter of netiquette or is it really against the law (violation
+ of the author's copyright - is there really a written law for that ?)
Yes, there is. The USA is (finally) a signatory to the Berne Convention.
Even before that, all creative works automatically gained copyright. As
such, even posts to Usenet fall under the category of "creative work".
Of course, you can only sue for damages caused unless you file a copyright
with your local copyright office. And _you_ have to file suit to enforce
your rights -- copyright infringement is typically a civil matter, not
criminal.
And who among us is rich enough to file suit over what we post to Usenet?
The cost is likely to far exceed any monetary rewards.
+ What are my rights as the author of that email ? Have there been
+ cases where this became a point of a severe dispute ?
My understanding is that you still retain rights to your {e}mail, but
that the receipiant also some rights to what you *gave* them. That's not
real clear to me, but I haven't been bothered to gain clarification.
+ In that regard does it matter if the publication of the private
+ email response to a previous post happened in a news group or in
+ an open mailing list ?
No, all that matters is if it is published. The medium doesn't really
matter.
James
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:38:16 GMT
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: Dejanews/closed lists/moderated groups/lists [Was: Re: Is perl5-porters closed to subscription?
Message-Id: <6o55g8$ocs$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
[courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
In comp.lang.perl.misc, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
:Copyright violations are, so far as I know, always civil complaints,
They needn't be. It's now a criminal offence. Whether you'll get a
DA to take it or not is another matter.
--tom
--
X-Windows: The problem for your problem.
--Jamie Zawinski
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:11:50 GMT
From: Mike West <westmj@esvax.dnet.dupont.com>
Subject: Re: Get IP Address for Server Name
Message-Id: <6o53um$o08@topgun.es.dupont.com>
Isn't this the classic place to turn on taint checking?
In article <6o3sfk$9b4$1@farstar.frb.gov> postmaster, @[127.0.0.1] writes:
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
>use diagnostics;
>
>$ip_addr = `nslookup $ARGV[0]`;
>
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:34:04 GMT
From: John Porter <jdporter@min.net>
Subject: Re: HELP: Internet Database Design questions...
Message-Id: <35A61A10.228A@min.net>
Clueless wrote:
>
> You can make your own database then.... simple flat text files, comma
> seperated (or better, caret ^ seperated).
Where did you get this strange idea?
If you're really going to use an arbitary single-character delimiter,
pick something really out of the way, like \xFE.
But comma is good choice, because it is somewhat standard, and it's
easy to do it right if you
use Text::CSV;
Then, if you want more "real db" functionality, you can
use DBD::CSV;
--
John Porter
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:21:43 GMT
From: Mike West <westmj@esvax.dnet.dupont.com>
Subject: Re: How can you encrypt a CGI script on a server so it will not get "stolen"?
Message-Id: <6o54h7$o4d@topgun.es.dupont.com>
In article <35A58C49.23BEE40F@lanl.gov> John Layne, jpl@lanl.gov writes:
>What would be the best way to protect my assets?
Well, John, as a US taxpayer, I worry about people abusing their
trust. Using ".gov" machines to post personal buiness to USENET,
instead of doing their job.
Mike (posted from work- perl is part of it)
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:57:09 -0400
From: AACTION Mortgage Webmaster <info@aactionmortgage.net>
Subject: Re: need to code a delete function
Message-Id: <35A61DB5.37C0@aactionmortgage.net>
F.Quednau wrote:
>
> You could also open that file for writing. In that way it is opened and
> truncated to no contents:
>
> open FILE, "> somefile.txt" or die "Ker-Pow: $!";
BTW, Simon, I was going for a way to delete lines within the datafile.
Thanks, I will try the open FILE, "> somefile.txt" or die "Ker-Pow: $!";
for now. I regret that I cannot post source in this NG because I'd
perfer to know who has access of my source. Yes, I have control issues
but you would if it was your code ;-) . E-mail me at home
(drperry@greennet.net) not at my work mailbox (hacking on company time
is so much fun) and I'll share my code under GPL terms.
also are there issues for not using the close(); at the end or does it
take care of itself?
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:53:13 +0100
From: "F.Quednau" <quednauf@nortel.co.uk>
Subject: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce
Message-Id: <35A60EB9.6BEFDFFA@nortel.co.uk>
Jeffrey R. Drumm wrote:
>
> ... but there are definitely some commercial products out there
> that are (IMHO) of TREMENDOUS interest to the Perl community. Especially the
> Magnetic Perl Kits. :-)
DANG! Now you've made me curious! What are the Magnetic Perl kits ?
Are they those little things that you stick notes to the fridge with?
Probably a microscopic version of the kitchen management script writtenm on it.
--
____________________________________________________________
Frank Quednau
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/~me51fq
________________________________________________
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:21:33 GMT
From: bkhilton@netcom.com (Brand and Karina Hilton)
Subject: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce
Message-Id: <bkhiltonEvvrry.JrF@netcom.com>
In article <6o3t16$ohh$1@news.campus.mci.net>,
Rick K <ismkoehlerism@nmism-us.campus.mci.net> wrote:
>John D Groenveld wrote in message <6o3b93$c7l$1@tholian.cse.psu.edu>...
>>I like the current charter and Randal has done a fine job moderating
>>the group. Let the commercial interests advertise in the Perl Journal
>>or some other median.
>
>
>I guess I sorta kinda agree with Mr. Groenveld.
>It seems there's an incredible can of worms opened when c.l.p.a. is opened
I have to disagree with you guys. I have no problem with
commercial postings, especially if they're tagged with "[COMMERCIAL]"
in the title, as suggested elsewhere in this thread. That way,
those like yourselves who don't like commercial postings can
killfile them. The linux.announce group does it this way, and it
seems to run along quite smoothly.
The primary benefit I see to allowing commercial postings is that,
if some training company in the area brings in Tom or Randal or one
of their associates to teach a Perl class, chances are I'll see the
announcement. As things stand now, chances are I wouldn't know about
it.
My $0.02
Brand
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:32:06 GMT
From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce
Message-Id: <8clnq1al2k.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com>
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey R Drumm <drummj@mail.mmc.org> writes:
Jeffrey> Please, just let the moderator use common sense to determine
Jeffrey> what should show up on c.l.p.a. It's not like anyone will be
Jeffrey> sued for what the moderator deems inappropriate.
I believe you highly overestimate the Pointy-Haired Bosses^WLawyers
ability to distinguish "common sense" from "legal right". People get
sued over much smaller matters. And given my current legal
entanglements (even though I just got a bit of relief, thank the
maker!), I'm *not* interested in the slightest additional liability
exposure.
I've been pretty fair so far at rejecting across-the-board for
commercial stuff, so I could always use that as a trivial defense.
But what about the day when I accept two ORA book postings in one
week, and then "Teach Yourself WebWhacking For Dummies" comes along
and it's a truely ghastly book and the press release is full of
capital letters and it has only one chapter on Perl, and so I reject
it just because the POSTING looks bad? Boom. Lawsuit. You cannot
have *discretion* without accepting liability for *choices*. I either
need a COMPLETELY objective ruling on commercial postings (heh, fat
chance :), or I need to not do the job. It's that simple.
print "Just another Perl newsgroup moderator,"
--
Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying
Email: <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@teleport.com)
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:49:07 GMT
From: drummj@mail.mmc.org (Jeffrey R. Drumm)
Subject: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce
Message-Id: <35a71b6f.268735891@news.mmc.org>
[ posted to comp.lang.perl.misc and a courtesy copy was mailed to the cited
author ]
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:53:13 +0100, "F.Quednau" <quednauf@nortel.co.uk> wrote:
>Jeffrey R. Drumm wrote:
>>
>> ... but there are definitely some commercial products out there
>> that are (IMHO) of TREMENDOUS interest to the Perl community. Especially the
>> Magnetic Perl Kits. :-)
>
>DANG! Now you've made me curious! What are the Magnetic Perl kits ?
>Are they those little things that you stick notes to the fridge with?
>Probably a microscopic version of the kitchen management script writtenm on it.
You're darn close . . .
Check out: http://www.tpj.com/tpj/poetry
I ordered two ;-)
(my sincere apologies for this off-topic post)
--
Jeffrey R. Drumm, Systems Integration Specialist
Maine Medical Center - Medical Information Systems Group
drummj@mail.mmc.org
"Broken? Hell no! Uniquely implemented!" - me
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 06:46:50 -0700
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: new charter and moderator for comp.lang.perl.announce
Message-Id: <m3iul5ddit.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>
Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
> I either need a COMPLETELY objective ruling on commercial postings (heh,
> fat chance :), or I need to not do the job. It's that simple.
I honestly recommend that you not do the job. Not the *whole* job. I
think you do a great job of moderating the non-commercial content of the
group. Just pick one of the people who is willing to run the risk of
being sued, appoint them comoderator for commercial content, and bounce
everything that you see that you're unwilling to make a judgement on over
their way.
This should solve the problem for you, and give us all what we really
want.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
$^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD,
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:45:17 -0500
From: Dave Barnett <barnett@houston.Geco-Prakla.slb.com>
Subject: Re: pattern matching results into an array
Message-Id: <35A61AED.81B017F2@houston.Geco-Prakla.slb.com>
Juli@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> unless (open (BOOK, "book.pl")){
> die ("can't open the file $!");
> }
> $this = bob;
> $that = jane;
> while ($line = <BOOK>) {
> if ( ($line =~ $that) ||
> ($line =~ $this) )
> {
> ## $line = @theory; ##
> }
> }
I'd like to make a few constructive comments about your code:
1. Are you using -w on the #! line, as in:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w ? perl told me that $line might be 0,
test with define. perl also complained about the two lines $this =
bob, and $that = jane, because they might become reserved words some
day.
2. Have a read through of perldoc -f push for more info on the push
function.
I would re-write this section as:
open(BOOK, "book.pl") or die "Can't open the file: $!\n";
# my preference. Yours works fine, as well.
$this = 'bob';
$that = 'jane';
while (defined($line = <BOOK>)) {
if ($line =~ /$that|$this/) {
# you should be able to compact the code as above, making for a
# cleaner looking set of code. My $0.02.
push(@theory, $line);
}
}
print "My theory is: @thoery\n";
That should help.
Cheers,
Dave
--
"Security through obscurity is no security at all."
-comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup posting
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DAPD Software Support Eng U.K.: barnett@gatwick.Geco-Prakla.slb.com
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:41:01 GMT
From: "Joe Junkin" <jjunkin@datacrawler.com>
Subject: Re: Perl based Web-to-database system
Message-Id: <NRop1.5$ZH1.101177@news.rdc1.ct.home.com>
The reason we are focused on win32 is because:
A) that is where the majority of databases are
B) ODBC is an accepted standard.
Part of the reason I posted this message was to find if there was interest
from the Linux Community. Data Crawler has no hooks into any aspect of NT
other then ODBC. Data Crawler is data independent, and the ODBC access is
simply a module. Creating and hooking in a DBI module would be quite simple.
At the point, the program will run almost unchanged.
Now, I certainly know NT sucks at CGI when compared to Linux. And I have
seen how fast CGI can be under Apache FastCGI.
To me, Linux is the ideal platform and we are interested in persuing it. But
is there any interest? Which databases? I see Red Hat comes with Postgress
SQL.
I would love to hear from people who are interested in a Linux version.
Please let me know.
> Data Crawler runs as a CGI process under a web server running on
> Windows NT(r) or 95/98.
>
> It has only been tested on Microsoft Internet Information Server
> 3/4 and PWS.
>
>nope. not interested.
>
>--
>brian d foy <comdog@computerdog.com>
>CGI Meta FAQ <URL:http://computerdog.com/CGI_MetaFAQ.html>
>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <URL:http://www.perl.com>
>Perl Mongers Travel Deals! <URL:http://www.pm.org/travel.html>
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 14:57:14 +0200
From: "0000-Admin(0000)" <kwoda@euv-frankfurt-o.de>
Subject: Perl installation (Version Perl 5.004_04)
Message-Id: <35A60FAA.4DA5@euv-frankfurt-o.de>
Hallo there,
Could anybody help me?
After compilation and configuration of Perl5.004_004 I wrote: make and I
got the following message:
rm -f libperl.a
ar rcu libperl.a perl.o malloc.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o
dump.o util.o mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o
pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o taint.o deb.o universal.o globals.o
perlio.o
make: ar: Command not found
make: *** [libperl.a] Error 127
Could anybody tell me how can I solve this problem (the installation run
on the machine SUn with Solaris 2.3)
Thanks
Krzysztof
eMail: kwoda@euv-frankfurt-o.de
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Date: 10 Jul 1998 13:25:46 GMT
From: David Turley <dturley@ravine.binary.net>
Subject: Re: Perl Visual Debugger for Win32
Message-Id: <6o54oq$q2q$1@oksennus.binary.net>
Mark Pearson <mark.pearson@gs.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a registered version of this wonderful utility, or even a
> registration code?
If it is do wonderful, why don't you pay for it? Then you'll have the
registration code. Sheesh!
--
_____________________________________________________________________
David Turley
dturley@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~dturley
"You don't want to be the only person sitting on a crocodile's back."
-- heard on a PBS nature show
______________________________________________________________________
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:57:49 GMT
From: drummj@mail.mmc.org (Jeffrey R. Drumm)
Subject: Re: UNC Filename Open for Output
Message-Id: <35a80e6b.265403179@news.mmc.org>
[ posted to comp.lang.perl.misc and a courtesy copy was mailed to the cited
author ]
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:34:35 GMT, wilfwilliams@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>I Try to open a UNC file name for output with no success like
>
>$index_page ='> //DITLU21/DATA$/inetpub/wwwroot/TCP/index.html';
>open(INDEX,$index_page) || die "ERROR:Cannot open $index_page !!\n";
>
>and several other combinations of > in different places. Without > it opens
>fine but in append mode.
I think you meant "read" or "input" rather than "append" . . .
>Can anyone suggest how to do this ?
The "what went bang?" variable ($!) is often very informative:
open(INDEX,$index_page) || die "ERROR: Cannot open $index_page: $!\n";
^^
I suspect you have a permissions problem . . .
--
Jeffrey R. Drumm, Systems Integration Specialist
Maine Medical Center - Medical Information Systems Group
drummj@mail.mmc.org
"Broken? Hell no! Uniquely implemented!" - me
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