[comp.lang.perl] Book examples on uunet

eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) (01/12/91)

Dunno if it's official yet, but the examples from The Book are
available on uunet.uu.net in nutshell/perl/perl.tar.Z
I'm sure they're much more interesting when you have the book in
hand.

Glad to see the poetry made it in.
I guess mailagent didn't make it Larry? 

--
Doug

lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (01/12/91)

In article <91Jan12.012609est.22192@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
: Dunno if it's official yet, but the examples from The Book are
: available on uunet.uu.net in nutshell/perl/perl.tar.Z

I think you can call it official.

: I'm sure they're much more interesting when you have the book in
: hand.

I certainly HOPE so.  :-)

: Glad to see the poetry made it in.
: I guess mailagent didn't make it Larry? 

Nope.  We couldn't put everything.  You get the super-duper passwd program tho.

The one I really wish I could throw in (but it wouldn't really be all that
useful to most people) is kybble, a bit editor that the Magellan folks are
using to patch the bit slips and complements in the telemetry data off of
Tape A on the spacecraft.  That's the main reason patch 42 contains new
binary and hex pack/unpack options.

Larry

tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (01/14/91)

In article <11026@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>The one I really wish I could throw in (but it wouldn't really be all that
>useful to most people) is kybble, a bit editor that the Magellan folks are
>using to patch the bit slips and complements in the telemetry data off of
>Tape A on the spacecraft.  That's the main reason patch 42 contains new
>binary and hex pack/unpack options.

You know...

I am going to smile just a little wider as I use Perl today!

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btw is it too big to post here, or is it JPL proprietary?

btw**2 don't forget everyone, see THE BLUE PLANET at your nearest IMAX
theater, and do it soon!

allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/15/91)

As quoted from <73603269@bfmny0.BFM.COM> by tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff):
+---------------
| In article <11026@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
| >The one I really wish I could throw in (but it wouldn't really be all that
| >useful to most people) is kybble, a bit editor that the Magellan folks are
| >using to patch the bit slips and complements in the telemetry data off of
| >Tape A on the spacecraft.  That's the main reason patch 42 contains new
| >binary and hex pack/unpack options.
| 
| I am going to smile just a little wider as I use Perl today!
+---------------

I'm not most people.  If it'll work for spacecraft telemetry, I wonder if I
can get it to patch errors in AX.25 packets?  ;-)

("kybble", huh?  Egads!  ;-)

++Brandon
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edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (01/16/91)

In article <91Jan12.012609est.22192@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca
(Doug Eastick) writes:

   | Dunno if it's official yet, but the examples from The Book are
   | available on uunet.uu.net in nutshell/perl/perl.tar.Z

European sites might prefer to get this from our archive, instead
of crossing the Atlantic. I've put the Perl examples in the
file: pub/UNIX/perl-book-examples.tar.Z

It's been a long time, so I guess it's just about time to advertise
our archive-site again ;-) Here are the details...


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**> This is my ``standard-answer'' to requests for free software that I
**> think our archive-service can fulfil. Usually, I mail this message
**> directly to the person who queried, but since people keep on asking,
**> I've decided to post this message as a follow-up on these kind of
**> queries in the relevant newsgroup(s) every once a month or so...


  We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an
anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. I should say that we're
NOT archiving all of "comp.sources.*". Instead, we're putting a lot
of effort in trying to keep the archive up-to-date.

 Here are the details on anonymous FTP:
 ======================================

	Site:		archive.cs.ruu.nl  [131.211.80.5]
	Login:		"anonymous" or "ftp"
	Password:	your email address (you@your_domain)
	Usage:		see the ftp(1) manual on your system
	Hot topics:	TeX stuff, Atari-ST software, Elm 2.3, NN 6.4, Perl,
			UNIX software, sundry documentation, ...
	Important:	to get a description of what exactly is in the
			archive get the file "pub/ls-lR.Z". Also, in each
			sub-directory there is a file named "INDEX" that
			describes the software in that directory (what
			version, what else you need, who wrote it, etc.).


  Although anonymous FTP is our main goal, we're also running a mail server,
because we *know* how you feel when there's plenty of beautiful software
around that you can't reach. We've been in that situation for a long long
time... All we ask from you is that you at least *try* to keep big requests
out of the prime-time hours (nights and weekends are fine).

 Okay, now for how to access our mail server:
 ============================================

	1) The mail server can be reached at the address

			mail-server@cs.ruu.nl

	   or the old-fashioned path alternative

			...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server

	2) The mail server understands a couple of commands, all commands
	   must be in the message body. The first thing you might want to
	   do is ask it for help:

			send HELP
	
	3) A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the
	   top-level directory, it will be updated every night. To get
	   it, say:

			send ls-lR.Z
	
	   Note that compressed files will be sent UUEncoded by default; we
	   use the UUE that was posted to the net some time ago.
	   In every subdirectory you'll find a "INDEX" file, describing the
	   contents of that directory. So, e.g. to find out what's in the
	   NN-6.4 directory, say:

			send NN-6.4/INDEX
	
	4) Last, assume you want to get the UUE/UUD package mentioned above:

			send UNIX/uudecode.shar
	
	5) If your mailer appends your fancy signature file, you might want
	   to mark the end of the mail-server commands-list by putting an

			end

	   command above the signature file. This will prevent "unknown
	   command" messages from the mail-server program.


  That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service
and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please).


		thanks for your time,
						--[ Edwin ]--
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