Speaking of commandline utilities for traditionally
GUI things... I've been wanting to create a
commandline interface to airport for a while.
Something that gives access to the same functionality
as that airport icon in the apple bar-- in particular
the ability to turn airport on and off (for
--- Thilo Planz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, in that case you probably know what you are
doing.
Sometimes I like to think so ;) Yeah, If I'm looking
for how to do X the first place I look is usually
CPAN; If I know how to do it I'll sometimes still look
on CPAN. One of the things that's kept
--- Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
While that's an admirable goal, allow me to
challenge that on
a few points.
will take a look at Template-Toolkit/
Does it change matters if I point out that I'm not
intending to publish the module, but rather just use
it for personal
I'm working on a script that takes a database and a
template and from them generates a bunch of HTML. The
pages don't need changing frequently (once every 4-6
months) and so the program is not actually a CGI. Long
story short, The script, database, and template all
have to be 100%
--- Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might want to look at YAML
(http://www.yaml.org). Also, there are
pure-perl XML parsers, if you don't need a lot of
speed.
Cool thanks. I'll check it out. As long as speed
scales linearly (or close enough for a couple thousand
fields) it shouldn't
--- Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is one of the typical reasons people turn to
DBMSs. PostGreSQL
would likely be overkill, but MySQL or perhaps even
Apple's own FM might
help. (I'm pretty sure FM allows storing documents,
but I've never done
it myself.)
I might look into it.
--- Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's back up a bit. Explain, in more abstract
terms, what you're
trying to accomplish. That may allow enough wiggle
room to allow
a Unixish solution.
In short, I'm trying to make information within files
accessable and modifiable, but keep the
So I've been put in charge of setting up and
maintaining our department's new dispatch/switchboard
computer. In trying to keep it clean and in order, I
was hoping, if possible, to be able to give users
read/write access to information in files themselves,
but to block them from renaming the files
