Of the O'Reilly books the only ones I really recommend for you are the
defacto-standard, "Programming Perl" (aka the camel book), and the "Advanced
Perl Programming".
Programming Perl:
To behonest, I have never been too impressed with the camel book, but it
does cover the most amount of information in a fun and jovial way. If you
are familiar with the more hard core programming books (eg. Tanumbaum's OS
books and Diedel & Diedel C++) then the camel book will look pretty silly,
but it is the most comprehensive book to learn Perl that I am aware of.
Advanced Perl Programming:
This is an awesome book mostly because it covers the more esoteric aspects
of the language. Additionally it covers the internal guts of how Perl works.
The only problem with this book (as is with most O'Reilly publications) is
that it does not cover topics in their entirety. For example, the benefit I
got out of Advanced Perl Programming was when I read it while examining the
Perl source code.
Another *great* place to get info are the docs that come with Perl. These
docs have been compiled into a .pdf file which is just a damned good
resource. The copy I have is amost 6Mb in size and can be downloaded from
our FTP site:
ftp://ftp.roth.net/pub/ntperl/PerlDocs.zip
You may want to check out our "recommended books" web page for more ideas:
http://www.roth.net/books/
dave
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From: Will Roden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:54 AM
To: Denmark Weatherburne; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If you are not familiar with Perl from your UNIX background, I highly
recommend the O'Reilly books Learning Perl on Win32 Systems and Programming
Perl (the camel book).
Between my recommendation and others, you are looking at $200+ in books, so
you might want to eliminate a couple of them. I found both of these books
indispensable when I started learning Perl. Now I hardly use Learning Perl,
but I could not do without the camel book. Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
won't teach you much if you are already familiar with Perl on UNIX systems.
On the other hand, the Roth books that were recommended won't do much for
you until you are familiar with Perl, but I highly recommend them for
learning Win32 specific extensions.
There aren't a lot of good Win32 Perl web sites. Dave Roth's has some good
example scripts <www.roth.net/perl>. Activestate's site has a searchable
archive of this and other good lists. Those are good for finding answers to
specific problems.
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> Denmark Weatherburne
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>
> Hi Listers,
>
> I'm new to this list. I joined this list to expand my knowlege of
> using perl for NT 4.0 system administration.
> I come from a Unix System Admin/Informix DBA background. I am now
> working in
> a Windows NT 4 Server and Workstation environment.
> I'm became used to writing shell scripts to automate some system
> administration tasks.
> I want to do the same things in the Windows NT environment.
> I've been using Robert's Perl Tutorial plus a Learning Perl CD along with
> other resources I've found on the internet.
> My experience has been very rewarding with group lists such as this one.
> I hope I will enjoy thie experience as well.
>
> I'd like to start by locating documentation that describes all the
> Win32 functions that are available for perl. I'd also appreciate if
> anyone would share some of their perl for NT 4 system administrtion
> scripts with me so I
> can start to learn by example.
> BTW, I'm using ActiveState ActivePerl which I downloaded a few days ago.
>
> Thanks is advance,
>
> Denmark Weatherburne
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