ard port (16nnn), so I'm assuming that Eric knows how to
test & restart his Apache instance.
But yes, use sudo for `apachectl` commands.
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esn't say it can do that; a 16x16 bitmap file will work
as an icon [on Windows] with the .ico extension, and will be served by
the web server with the favicon.ico name.
And yes, PerlMagick would be the most apropos suggestion :-)
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Easy Solution one of these:
sudo fink install imagemagick
or, for the pre-built binary version,
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
?
Hand-rolling popular software from source is nice and all, but how many
times does the wheel need to be re-invented, ya know? :-)
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > how many times does the wheel need to be re-invented, ya know? :-)
>
> I've always thought that an odd expression.
Fair enough :-)
But still, think about it: do we ne
used, it's just being supplemented.
So as the earlier mail you got suggested, everything is in /Volumes.
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awake (for a long enough
> period) when cron fires.
Isn't that the sort of problem that Anacron is supposed to solve?
<http://anacron.sourceforge.net/>
Seems like it might make this sort of thing easier...
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They come right out and say on their home page that this isn't meant to
replace the traditional Cron system, but rather to supplement it for
people with different usage patterns (laptops, people who turn their
machine off at night, etc).
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set variables, not launch programs (as far as I know). No help there.
Can you have a shell script launch as a login item? I've only been able
to get graphical applications to launch this way.
I've poked at "SSH Agent.app", but it kept crashing...
Suggestions welcome :-)
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f balancing quotes & backslashes appropriately. Make sense?
It may be easier for you to just symlink the semi-colon version of the
name to an easier equivalent:
$ ln -s /Volumes/PRINCETON\;DELLSERVER /Volumes/dellserver
And things should be much easier in Perl-land after that...
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r user name and password". So it seems like
you can't fake it trivially.
I don't see anything obviously helpful in my <~/Library/Preferences>...
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ame location.)
I hope this helps. If you find the Sams book unhelpful, you may want to
take a look at _Learning Perl_ by Randal Schwartz & Tom Phoenix:
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/>
Please ask the list if you have more questions, or would like a more
detailed walkthrough of how to get a simple first program running.
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question. Your /usr/bin/cpan should
just be a little Perl script that amounts to little more than this:
$ /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
If you have a newer version of Perl in /usr/local, try this
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
And you should end up with about the same behavior.
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D]> list. Many of us subscribe to this list
because we like being able to help out new users, so keep us
in mind if things aren't making any sense for you.
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tion offered and remove the .lock file.
Are you not getting an error message to the effect of what I put here?
> I'm thinking too hard, I know. Time to install XML and get back to work.
Heh, "now you have two problems!"
:)
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sn't seem to be a man page, but then the person who
first suggested it did say it wasn't very well documented. In any case,
the help page is a decent start...
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t's probably best not to put "." in the $PATH anymore.
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in /Library/Perl
> /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/darwin /Network/Library/Perl
> /Network/Library/Perl .).
>
> so those are presumably the default locations, but does CPAN have the
> same defaults?
It should go by the @INC array, yes.
This could again come down to multiple copies of Perl installed.
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f it on the hard drive at
.
If the machine came with a disc labelled XCode, that's what you need.
If not, you can always copy if off your collegue's hard drive.
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hen let the list know if it
isn't suitable for what you need to do, please :-)
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n right, it'll Just Work. In Time.
The fact that you spell out what you did for each of "perl Makefile.PL",
"make", etc suggests that you're doing this by hand. This used to be the
normal way to install Perl modules, but CPAN.pm has been around for a
few years now and it's much less painful than doing all this by hand.
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.perl.org/>;
there's a subscription box on the top-right side of the page. There's
also a FAQ for the list at <http://learn.perl.org/beginners-faq>.
Good luck with your project :-)
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have Apache::MP3 working on Panther?
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n this context -- I still just get no output, normal
access logs, and no recorded activity in the error log.
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aults are fine. Once the questions are done, it should
find, download, and install the module for you.
The Perl beginners list is the right place for these sorts of questions:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <http://learn.perl.org/>
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nstead of "image/jpeg".
This can probably be done with about half a dozen lines of code, and if
the browser is well behaved -- that'll be the part that's a pain to
verify -- the alternate content type should force the right behavior.
Let me know if you find this d
ilar), and
then you automatically get a clone of the directory tree.
From there, the image gallery application can be set up to serve things
like
and then all people would have to do to save a file would be click it.
This is much better than what I was thinking earlier! :-)
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, william ross wrote:
On 23 Aug 2004, at 12:14, Chris Devers wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, william ross wrote:
This will mean that jpegs in that directory can't ever be used on pages
-- which would kind of ruin the fun.
There seems to be an easy workaround though: symlink ~/
The image tree will now be available for regular browsing at
<http://site/photos/> as before, but also for downloading at
<http://site/photo-dl/>.
No mucking around with whitelists.
No risk of nasty path ../foo tricks.
It should Just Work.
And if it doesn't, your script wouldn&
les (notably DBD::mysql) from building properly.
ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'
with
ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'
Other than that, things should Just Work.
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np: '
rough
10.2, so you should be pretty safe in this case.
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np: 'Mahna Mahna!'
by The Muppets
from 'The Muppet Show'
every 3 months"
chestnut -- there may be an element of truth in there, but if the system
has been maintained well, that's really overkill.
*shrug*
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np: 'Movin' Right Along (lo-fi midi version)'
by The Muppets
from 'The Muppet Movie Soundtrack'
ponsively, on the command line.
* I can't figure out how to unmount it... :-)
Aside from that little wrinkle, this seems to work well...
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you can mount a filesystem
by poking at a command line tool, intuitively it seems like it should be
much less overhead than bringing in the Finder & AppleScript machinery.
BTW, one little catch is that it is read-only.
For backups, that's probably okay though.
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HTML code; it provides regex search &
replace capabilities; and it has some kind of support for managing
changes to a document, though I haven't played with this feature.
Learn more here: <http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/>
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ncftp is
also nice...
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, The Ghost wrote:
> I can't get Math::Pari (dependency for Net::SSH::Perl) to build
> on OS X 10.3.5. Suggestions?
Try harder ?
Send error messages along with questions you expect real answers for ?
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now if it doesn't work.
This ought to be in a prominent Perl/OSX10.3 FAQ somewhere... :-/
Longer version of the above, with links & references, etc:
<http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/archives/64.html>
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, wren argetlahm wrote:
> Any other suggestions?
It may not be the smallest solution, but Palm Desktop may be an
effective intermediary. The program is a free download, and among other
things it can able to import & export several address file formats.
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ne.
It's certainly a very easy & painless way though:
% sudo fink -y install imagemagick
% sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Magick'
This gets you 90% of the way there, at least.
The ability to do this by hand can obviously be valuable, but it can
hardly be easier :-)
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ng
the Image::Magick CPAN module. Again, Fink will help you here.
$ sudo apt-get install perlmagick-pm581
or, once more, build from source, with
$ sudo fink -y install perlmagick-pm581
Plant, water, watch it grow, harvest when ripe.
You can do this all by hand, but there's not much point in doing so.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > If you really want to prove to yourself how much rounder your wheel will
> > be, then yes, use the Unix instructions.
>
> Or, if you want to see how that wheel got so r
you want & get going.
You're getting hung up on the least interesting part of programming! :-)
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x27;ve almost got it, and if you had tried `fink --help` or `man fink`,
you may well have been able to figure out the rest on your own.
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%
If what you get isn't roughly the same, then you may have to include a
`use lib ...` statement in your scripts to tell them where to look for
the Image::Magick library.
But hopefully this Just Works.
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0.3/Panther.
Once XCode / devtools are installed, you should end up with a copy of
GCC and related tools in /usr/bin/gcc, /usr/bin/make, etc. Once you've
got all that, then go back and try building perlmagick-581 with Fink.
This time around, it should work just fine.
Let us know if you have any problems :-)
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sn't mean that it
makes sense to get rid of it altogether...
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ulty reading it?
It looks like it's using DOS line endings: \r\n
That may be required by the spec, I don't know...
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o do. I just think the most productive approach would be to
build on top of an existing & reasonably complete editor rather than
starting everything from scratch...
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e it's something that would be
useful to lots of people...
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want to look at a good Unix book that
includes documentation about OSX. _Unix Power Tools_ is an excellent
book, and I seem to remember the current edition having a Perl section
(though I may be wrong about that), and I know it specifically talks
about OSX in places.
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erl, take a look at
the CamelBones project:
<http://camelbones.sourceforge.net/>
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sub { tie *STDOUT, 'Apache' unless tied *STDOUT; }"
Details: <http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/archives/64.html>
This seems to have fixed the problems I was having getting some mod_perl
applications (Apache::MP3, etc) to work.
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is or did this not fix the problem? You make
it sound like it didn't work, but you're using it anyway (unless I'm
just being thick, which is possible, as it's been a long day...).
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n remove this TIE
> code and just follow the rules better.
>
> =)
Ahh, I see. Weird, but if it works...
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atabase.
It has no relation at all to the system 'root' account on your computer.
MySQL has its own set of accounts which generally have no connection to
the ones on the system that the database server is running on.
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fixing the symptom (redirecting the host name)
rather than the real problem (apache should use a portable name). Fix
the real problem and the symptom will go away.
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C Power
Macintosh powerpc
% perl -v | grep -i 'this is perl'
This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
Any ideas? Are installations like this normal for Mac::Glue?
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ternal error page, but do not see any errors in apache error log.
> I tested via Terminal calling a Perl script and it seemed to work fine.
What shows up in the Apache logs when someone hits this page?
Do successes & errors look the same in the log?
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f there is any record of what the problem may have
been. You may or may not see any useful patterns, but it sounds like
that's the only data you have to work with now.
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same
problem. It's better to address what's really causing this error.
(Not that this is a mod_perl issue either, but oh well.)
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Boysenberry Payne wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'
>
> Thanks for the patch/fix. Do you think I should rebuild DBD::mysql?
It certainly wouldn't hurt, and it would only
l question -- and
based on your pathnames, this doesn't look like OSX -- then you need to
ask the people on that list.
My mod_perl-foo is *really* musty, and I haven't touched mod_perl under
Apache 2 at all yet, so your best bet is try asking others... :-)
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9 2004 17:59:31
$ sw_vers
ProductName:Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.3.8
BuildVersion: 7U16
$
Panther server may ship with Apache 2, but the regular version doesn't.
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jeremy Mates wrote:
> * Christopher L. Filkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I'm looking for the perl equivalent of a heredoc declaration. For some
> > reason I can't recall how. In php it would work like this:
>
> my $foo = <
> Stuff stuff stuff
>
> EOD
I've never quite unde
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jeremy Mates wrote:
> Warning! The qq[] syntax produces different output than the heredoc:
>
> my $foo = < asdf
> EOD
>
> my $bar = qq[
> asdf
> ];
>
> print "uh oh" unless $foo eq $bar;
Right. The qq[] syntax above & as I offered earlier, tacks on newlines.
These are id
fic XCode IDE.
Maybe it was decided that the 10.0 - 10.2 era "[Month] [Year] OSX
Develeoper's Tools" was a clumsy name that had to be retired, and that
having the same name for two things was acceptably annoying.
*shrug*
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Vim as simple to use as TextWrangler / BBEdit / SubEthaEdit / etc,
but it's a lot more friendly than the original Vi ever was...
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ions of Unix: it can be flaky & fiddly, and there's a lot to
learn, but getting up & running with it on Unix (including OSX) is a
*lot* less painful than it would be on the Windows version of Apache.
Or at least, that has been my experience.
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();
use Apache::MP3::Sorted();
1;
Modules you use a lot can be addded here to improve performance, but
adding too much can slow all accesses down. Balance accordingly.
Hopefully, the package you're setting up -- AxKit in this case -- will
have instructions for what it needs to
pd.conf
# I get a file like "httpd.conf.20050311.15629".
$ vim httpd.conf && apachectl configtest
# I make a royal mess of things. Damn.
$ cp httpd.conf.20050311.15629 httpd.conf
$ apachectl configtest
# All is right with the world again.
Something like CVS / SVN / BitKeeper would be "better", but not easier.
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led XS component,
you need the XCode toolkit anyway, so you might as well install it if
you haven't done so already.
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#x27;env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc'
Do that, and DBD::Mysql (and anything else that trips over this bug)
will work just fine.
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t
it's not *quite* such an old bug -- it only impacts 10.3.
On the other hand, we still have Jaguar users today. Not many, but a
few. We'll probably have people using Panther, and hitting this bug,
for at least a couple more years... :-/
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elp much on OSX. I'm not aware of any
porting framework that uses it. Aside from Fink, the other main one,
GNU/Darwin, is (ironically?) based on the BSD ports system. I've not
heard of anyone porting over the RedHat porting framework to OSX.
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write org.dot-app.CamelBones perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6
It sounds like that will fix it.
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s
> installed into - didn't work.
Based on the mail Sherm sent under a different subject, it sounds like
this currently won't work, as ShuX only bundles support for Perl 5.8.1.
With that in mind, and assuming you still have the original file that
Apple put at /usr/bin/perl5.8.1, can you use the line unamended?
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, David Linton wrote:
> What's the least I need to know and where should I start to look for
> info? e.g. FAQ, example scripts
Camelbones: <http://camelbones.sourceforge.net/index.php>
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ese events:
<http://seminars.apple.com/tradeshows/>
But really, no one (that is allowed to say) knows yet.
Your best bet is to just keep an eye on tech news sites. The release of
Tiger will surely be a headline on CNet, Slashdot, etc, and maybe even
non-tech-specific sites like CNN or the BBC.
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e of the main
Unix software they're going to be distributing: Perl, Python, Ruby, GCC,
etc. Now that a release date is imminent, maybe they can update the page
to have this information.
Didn't the promo pages for 10.3 have all of this kind of thing?
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
> Are you looking for this?
> http://www.apple.com/opensource/
That's the one!
Looks like it'll be Perl 5.8.6 then...
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faultApp-1.2.1/RCDefaultApp.prefPane/Contents/Resources/lstool
Usage:
lstool read [ []]
lstool write
is one of: internet, url, extension, mime, ostype
is the path to an application or a name to be looked up
$
I suspect that this can be used to do what you need. Somehow...
ing tricks
in httpd.conf to get mod_perl to work, everything works fine in Tiger.
(Though I've yet to try installing RT, that'll be the real test. I was
never able to get it to work right on Panther...)
...was there supposed to be a (b) in there somewhere?
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es.
If you go into the Network panel and show your main interface, then
click on the Proxies tab, there will be a prominent checkbox:
[ ] Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)
Checking that should be equivalent to the old $PASSIVE_FTP variable, but
should apply to all programs, graphical, command line, or self-made.
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27;m wrong.
I'd never noticed that checkbox under previous versions of OSX.
This page seems to be the relevant one for 10.4 --
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh609.html>
-- but it doesn't really clarify things one way or the other. :-/
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sive => 0)
>
> ) would solve the problem?
Yes, this sounds like the fix you're looking for.
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t/perl/pod/perl583delta.pod>
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perl582delta.pod>
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perl581delta.pod>
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with the deal.
Phrase it that way and it's actually kind of cheap... :-/
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still baffled by what this all means
y $info = image_info("image.jpg");
if (my $error = $info->{error}) {
die "Can't parse image info: $error\n";
}
my $color = $info->{color_type};
my($w, $h) = dim($info);
Accessing the comment field is a one-line change to this block.
Hel
ac OS X sooner than this.
The timing of the announcement seems curious to me...
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iteration of the system.
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would
be easier than setting it manually.
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f.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=12542&rfc_flag=0>
<http://spf.pobox.com/>
<http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/default.mspx>
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html>
<http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=33190>
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as Perl can do that one too, but then I
haven't actually looked at this package so I don't know how he's trying
to use it; maybe it isn't really a Useless Use Of Cat :-)
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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Joseph Alotta wrote:
On Jul 8, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
#!/bin/sh
perl -pi -e "tr/\r//d"
I tried to call perl directly. But this does not work
at all. Does anyone know why?
#!/usr/bin/env perl -pi -e "tr/\r//d"
See, I was onl
d eq "avbstcLinmed" ? ok(1) : ok(0);
The second failed test is nearly identical:
use MacOSX::File;
use MacOSX::File::Info;
...
my $asked = askgetfileinfo("dummy");
ok($asked eq "avbstcLinmed");
So... something wrong with askgetfileinfo() on Tiger maybe ?
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r daily, so keeping up is impossible
anyway.
There has been talk of including fewer CPAN modules with future versions
of Perl, to get people into the habit of installing things when
previously they might not have wanted to go beyond the core modules.
*shrug*
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uld be very convenient if
> > I could make CPANPLUS ar CPAN work. Any suggestions?
>
> Choose a less busy mirror?
And/or check that passive-mode FTP is enabled? (Hint: $ENV{FTP_PASSIVE}
is the one you need, if I remember right...)
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, John Delacour wrote:
> Try this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print `/usr/bin/./printenv`
^^
^^
Why the '/./' here?
Isn't `/usr/bin/printenv` equivalent, clearer, and simpler?
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