Re: Karl Moens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is out of the office.

2007-06-27 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
uhm, thanks for the warning? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 26/06/2007 and will not return until > 18/07/2007. > > In case of an emergency, please call our emergency telephone number +32 3 > 286 64 85 or one of my colleagues: Sofie Cappaert (+32 3 286 65 91), Ann

Re: How can i pass an object like $t from my .pl to .pm file

2007-03-05 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Actually, a Windows .exe CAN run on Linux, under Wine. =) Tony Kenneth Ölwing wrote: >> q. 1. which is the best tool for this?? (since google is giving me show >> many options!) > > Always dangerous to name something 'best'...so I'll just give a > recommendation based on what I use. Doesn't ne

Re: content-type woes and the evils of \n -- any advice?

2006-12-08 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
If you have access to a Linux of FreeBSD box or you have Cygwin installed on your Windows box, you might want to try the diff or cmp commands to compare the two files. od -c might also come in handy. Tony ___ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@lists

Re: content-type woes and the evils of \n -- any advice?

2006-12-08 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi todd -- > > In a message dated 12/8/2006 5:41:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Hello Everyone! >> >> I've written a file-converter that grabs what is essentially a CSV file, >> and spews it out in a reformatted fashion. Eac

Re: File creation time?

2006-12-08 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I've always wondered why Unix doesn't have a file creation time... $Bill Luebkert wrote: > Brian Raven wrote: > >> That seems like quite a good description, without getting into the >> implementation details of a *nix file system. Can you cite the source >> for your quote, or would you have to ki

Re: How to implement or simulate " more" or "less" behavior within PERL programs?

2006-06-25 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Srini Vuggumudi wrote: > Hello, > > One of my PERL programs dumps multiple screens of output. It is hard to read > the output because the output scrolls fast. I would like to change the > display of output from my program like the way "more" or "less" displays a > file. > > How can I simulate

Re: precision and perl

2006-03-30 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
It's probably storing your result as 5. or something. Look at this: => cat test.pl my $y = 6; print $y , "\n"; print sprintf("%04d\n",$y); print int($y), "\n"; __END__ [intertwingled.net::leontopod::-bash] ~ (Thu Mar 30 14:51:10) => perl test.pl 6 0006 6 [intertwingled.net::leontopod:

Re: Breaking Up A Date.

2006-02-06 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Depends on how good looking the date is too. $Bill Luebkert wrote: Jonathan Dudson wrote: I am pretty much a newbie when it comes to perl. I am trying to break up either localtime or time so they I end up with three separate variables $date (06) $month(02) $year(2006) that I can use in an

Re: someone fooling with virus

2006-02-01 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
And that also assumes that you are opening up images or other files from "untrusted" sources. Tony $Bill Luebkert wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: $Bill Luebkert: There's no way a GIF/JPEG/PNG can really hurt you There are plenty of counter examples. For example: google: bugtraq jpeg http:/

Re: someone fooling with virus

2006-01-31 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Switch to Linux/Thunderbird. Problem solved. Frank D. Gunseor wrote: I also am very disappointed, especially with the lists lack of response. I had to go through some gyrations to block and get off the list. I was getting 5 - 6 virus infection alerts from my virus scanner about every 5 minut

Re: someone fooling with virus

2006-01-31 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I am using Thunderbird on a Linux box. I am just deleting the emails. Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I even told this person in a e-mail he had a virus problem and I see that he hasn't done anything about it. I'm thinking its deliberate at this point and I agree someone needs to ban him f

Re: Strange behaviour in Perl

2006-01-25 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Arijit Das wrote: I am just wondering why is this giving a strange result. Any clues...? bash-2.01$ echo 4.56 | perl -p -e 'my $var1 = ; $var2 = $var1 * 100; print $var2;' 04.56 bash-2.01$ I am expecting 456 in the ouput instead of 4.56 Am I missing anything...? Thanks, Arijit

Re: Fw: can't locate loadable object for module Text::CSV_XS

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
See the bottom of the email about how to unsubscribe. Anatole Pea Elee wrote: Hi, I do not wish any more to receive your emails and to withdraw my name in your list of distribution. Bonne réception Cordialement - Best/Regards Anatole-Didace PEA ELEE Location city: La Gaude Office B2 N20

Re: perlapp

2005-12-28 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I think the term you are looking for is "code obfuscation". On the other hand, have you considered just using an Open Source or GPL license for your code? Tony Octavian Rasnita wrote: Oh yes, but Java can be crypted... I mean not crypted, there is another term for that kind of code manipula

Re: SCCS in Linux

2005-12-27 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
SCCS is the Source Code Control System, the precursor to CVS, and at one time I think that CVS was built on top of SCCS, but that might not be true any more... Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Sandeep Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How can I install SCCS in Linux, is there any documen

Re: Problems with fork

2005-12-14 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
And here I am still limping along with Win 98 SE. Win 98 SE FOREVER!! =D Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got to say this since I fix PCs for a living do the smart thing use Linux. XP Pro is only slightly better than home. Offers some features home doesn't not sure if there are any i

Re: Invoking perl scripts automatically based on time of day

2005-12-14 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
cron !? =) Hmm, looks like cygwin has a /usr/sbin/cron.exe Tony Mittal, Manish wrote: Hi Perl gurus, Is there a way in Perl to invoke a set of Database related perl scripts at certain times of day regularly? Could any one direct me to locate a good resource or provi

Re: Passing arguments by value

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
And don't forget the venerable typeglob (from an early version of Programming Perl): sub doubleary { local(*someary)[EMAIL PROTECTED]; foreach $elem (@someary) { $elem *= 2 } } &doubleary(*foo); &doubleary(*bar); R. S. van Keuren wrote: -Original Message- On Behalf Of John W. K

Re: OT - my comments re Algol.

2005-11-22 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
What about Jovial, and yes, Perl is descended from Algol so this is still a Perl thread! Mitch wrote: Hi all Thanks to all of you who replied off-list. This is the only mailing-list I belong to where the default reply is to the poster, not the list! FWIW, reply to the replies o I am aware

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-22 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Let me see.. IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBPRTPNCH IEBEYEBALL!!! =) Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah. I'll bet he just uses a different JCL stack. David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/22/2005 13:32 To: Lester Pyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: "'[E

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-22 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
When I was in high school I wrote a cool little program in HP Timesharing Basic that displayed large letters on paper tape. It was a real hit, all the kids were using it. =) Tony Lester Pyle wrote: Ken Cornetet wrote: That's why FORTRAN compilers (real ones, not the newfangled stuff) s

Off Topic: The Sony CD DRM Root Kit Fiasco

2005-11-22 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
More info can be found here: http://www.sonysuit.com/ -- SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER ___ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-21 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Actually there is a variant of Algol called Jovial that is still used in military avionics. I believe it was also used to program air traffic control software. There is even a Jovial web site: http://www.jovial.hill.af.mil/ And to tie this thread up and get back to Perl, take a look here ht

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-19 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
e system was working like it should. Watching a 16 bit counter count up as fast as it could was interesting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony R. Nemmer Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:43 PM To: Combs, Stephen F (GE Consumer &

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-18 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
half Of Beau E. Cox Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gomez, Juan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... Hi Anthony R. Nemmer - At 2005-11-18, 08:22:34 you wrote: Yes, and before that I used Emacs on a MULTICS system. I even

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-18 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony R. Nemmer Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: activeperl@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... I remember using Wordstar to do Pascal programming. =) This would be in the very early 1980&#

Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

2005-11-18 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I remember using Wordstar to do Pascal programming. =) This would be in the very early 1980's [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the dreaded editor/IDE controversy! This one's been dormant ever since I've been a subscriber; good to see it coming back to life. Buwah-ha-ha-h! Let the flayings begi

Re: Good Free Perl IDE?

2005-11-17 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
vim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used www.context.cx for 4 years for ALL my perl, xml and javascript work. I tried out ActivePerl's Komodo and gave up and went back to conTEXT. David Wright Training and Technical Support SAIL LABS Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: SONY/BMG

2005-11-16 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
One thing you can do to protect yourself is to turn off CD autorun on your Windows box: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018 I also keep my Windows box behind a battened down Linux firewall box. I simply will not run Windows on an external IP address. It's asking for trouble.

Re: OT: Sony CD malware removal method only makes things worse!

2005-11-15 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Yep just read about it on slashdot.org. Sony is going down the tubes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who plays Sony CDs on their PC should check this out. I know it's got nothing to do with Perl, but I thought that the wider exposure this gets, the better. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1005

Re: not equial?

2005-11-10 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Petr Vileta wrote: I don't know if this a bug or feature, but two numbers are not equial :-) my $step = 0.1; my $min = -1.5; my @a = (); for (my $t=-$step; $t >= $min; $t-=$step) { push @a,$t; } Result is that @a = [-0.1, -0.2, -0.3, -0.4, -0.5, -0.6, -0.7, -0.8, -0.9, -1, -1.1, -1.2

Re: Top posting

2005-10-05 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I'm ordering everybody to STAY AT THEIR POSTS! $Bill Luebkert wrote: Octavian Rasnita wrote: Well, I think that this fight of top posting versus bottom posting should move to another one which is "Why using MS Windows or MS email clients?", because I think the most important reason for top

Re: Top posting

2005-10-04 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
can't we all just GET ALONG!? =) Craig Cardimon wrote: David Nicol wrote: If this thread doesn't stop PDQ I will unsubscribe from the activeperl mailing list. The activeperl mailing list is too wide of a forum for such sophomorism. Please take it to your local perl mongers chapter, where it

Re: Faulting application Perl.exe

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
From the efnet #windows channel: Damn Good Memory Tester: -WinInfo:#Windows- MEMTEST = damn good free memory tester, http://www.memtest86.com/ ... makes a standalone bootable floppy or CD. make the disk, boot it, and let it run for at least several hours, or overnight... Tony Rachan Malh

Re: New release: ActivePerl 5.8.7 build 813

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
$Bill Luebkert wrote: Anthony R. Nemmer wrote: You can get binary distributions from the CPAN site too (the Perl Ports (Binary Distributions)). Hence my question. What is the difference between the binary ports that Activestate provides and the binary ports that CPAN provides? Over and

Re: New release: ActivePerl 5.8.7 build 813

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
-specific modules for the Windows Activestate Distribution? Seems to be a duplication of effort Tony Jan Dubois wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Anthony R. Nemmer wrote: Just out of curiousity, how do the Activestate releases of Perl differ from the releases of Perl that you can get from CPAN

Re: New release: ActivePerl 5.8.7 build 813

2005-06-07 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Just out of curiousity, how do the Activestate releases of Perl differ from the releases of Perl that you can get from CPAN, understanding of course that the Windows Activestate Release will have Windows-specific modules that the other Activestate Perl releases won't have. Tony Scott Campbell

Re: perl for AMD64

2005-04-29 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I've used perl on VMS. Tony $Bill Luebkert wrote: Steve Sarapata wrote: Speaking of platforms, is there a version of PERL for the VAX. Maybe I should ask if there is anybody out there old enough to know what the VAX is. You should be thinking OS more than machine. I'm sure there are Ultrix

Re: [OT] Best Windows WEB server

2004-12-06 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Apache Greg wrote: I am looking for an affordable web server for my windows clients. Must be able to use SSL. What is your favorite server software excluding IIS? Thanks, Greg ___ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv

Re: Running perl from a CD?

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
I do believe that Knoppix comes with Perl installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run some repetetive tasks on several PCs before connecting them to our corporate network (installing patches and antivirus software etc). If these PCs had perl installed it would be trivial to automate the ent

Re: (no subject)

2004-11-17 Thread Anthony R. Nemmer
Why? Gerhard Koerfer wrote: Hi all, Download the GD-module(the GD.ppd file) from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ in your Perl directory and install it as: at DOS prompt : ppm> install GD.ppd HTH Gerhard ___ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]