RE: How to modify the Screen Saver setting with PERL?

2000-05-24 Thread tim_meadowcroft
I bet the screen saver and background images are simply registry values. If I were trying to do a similar task, I would search Microsoft's web page to find out what registry setting is used to set these things, and then get a registry module from www.cpan.org to set the registry key. Or

Re: Passing an array to a regexp

2000-05-24 Thread tim_meadowcroft
I have the following condition: if ( $x =~ /^[one|two|three|four]/ ) { ...} However, I would like to test for values in an array; for example: @array = ( "one", "two", "three", "four" ); Can I now write the regexp to pull out the values of the array instead, making the regexp

Re: Curve Fitting and statistics

2000-05-22 Thread tim_meadowcroft
I am looking for statistics modules to enable me to fit trendlines to charts. I am thinking of linear regression, logrithmic, exponential, power and moving averages. I found a module called Statistics OLS dated 1998. Before I continue to look for modules I thought I would ask the community

Re: How to find the element no. of Grep match?

2000-05-22 Thread tim_meadowcroft
i have a @list that contains elements i do not know. i'm using grep to match some words inside the @list. for example: $match = grep /\d/, @list; my question is: is there a way to find the element No. eg: $list[number] of the latest match? ($first_hit_number) = grep( $list[$_] =~ /\d/,

Re: An attempt to clear up Active Scripting Misconceptions

2000-05-19 Thread tim_meadowcroft
Justin Rogers said: Everyone is saying that ASP caches pages in memory, but not the compiled pages. But I'd like to go straight to the root of the problem and that lies in some C/C++ code. So here goes: An Active Scripting Engine has to support many interfaces (thus the way of COM),

Re: Win32::API - Get file version information

2000-05-19 Thread tim_meadowcroft
I'm trying to retrieve version information from file(s). It seems that I have to use 3 Win32 functions: Personally, I just use Win32::AdminMisc use Win32::AdminMisc; my %vInfo; if (Win32::AdminMisc::GetFileInfo( $file, \%vInfo )) { print "$_ : $vInfo{$_}\n" foreach sort keys

Re: An attempt to clear up Active Scripting Misconceptions

2000-05-19 Thread tim_meadowcroft
Jan Dubois wrote: No, Active Scripting Engines can support a Clone() method to allow duplication of already compiled scripts. This isn't implemented in PerlScript from builds 5xx whereas VBScript and JavaScript do support it. Exactly the sort of call I expected - now why did I think I

Re: A good editor - ntemacs

2000-05-17 Thread tim_meadowcroft
anyone know how to change the colors in ntemacs syntax highlighting? the default colors aren't very legible. Put the following Lisp in your startup file (c:\_emacs unless you've made one elsewhere). Close emacs and start it up again. This gives colours more like the PC norms (eg comments

Re: ODBC on WinNT

2000-05-09 Thread tim_meadowcroft
Can you suggest any other areas for me to explore? First thing, if you're running IIS with NT Challenge Response authentication enabled, then the script runs with the permission of the browsing user, NOT the web server user, and if the access file is on another computer then you won't be