Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 15:07 13/03/2001, you wrote: >* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >*why* it works, they just want it to work. > > > > > > With the excellent documentation > > > > > >whether it's your stepping-stone to writing your own scripts or > whether you > > > > > >never want to get more in-dept

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >*why* it works, they just want it to work. > > > > With the excellent documentation > > > >whether it's your stepping-stone to writing your own scripts or whether you > > > >never want to get more in-depth than just typing in the path to your Perl > >exe

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 13:02 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Not clear which particular book you mean. > >The Cgi/Perl Cookbook by Craig Pratchett and Matthew Wright. John Wiley & >Son. One of the current "reviews" on Amazon.com says: > >This is obviously a book that a lot of time and c

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > Not clear which particular book you mean. The Cgi/Perl Cookbook by Craig Pratchett and Matthew Wright. John Wiley & Son. One of the current "reviews" on Amazon.com says: This is obviously a book that a lot of time and care went into, on the part of bo

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > > with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now > seen > > that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups is a Good Thin

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Roger Horne
On Tue 13 Mar, Dave Cross wrote: > > Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now seen > that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups is a Good Thing. Since you only get one copy of each o

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 11:28 13/03/2001, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:27:08AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > > > >By the way, Dave, did Addison Wesley contact you about this or vice > > >versa? I'm wondering if O'Reilly and others are sending books to Perl > > >monger group

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:27:08AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: > > >By the way, Dave, did Addison Wesley contact you about this or vice > >versa? I'm wondering if O'Reilly and others are sending books to Perl > >monger groups anyway and they just vanish unmentioned

Re: Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
At 12:15 13/03/2001, you wrote: >Dave Cross, Lord and Master of London.pm, thus wrote: > > >Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming > >with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now seen > >that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups

Freebies

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Cross
Postman just bought a review copy of Lincoln Stein's "Network Programming with Perl". This is good news as it seems that Addison Wesley have now seen that giving freebie copies to Perl Monger groups is a Good Thing. I'll be giving it away at the next meeting, which is on Thursday 5th April. I