On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, David Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Excerpts from Richard Lee's message of Sun Apr 20 17:02:58 -0400 2008:
>
> > This looks very useful.
>  >
>  > Unfortunately however, the system I am on, I cannot install any modules
>  > other than standard modules that already come with the perl.
>  > But I will try this at my own system.
>
>  Well, take a deeper look. The module itself has no extra dependencies
>  so, if you can actually put it on your system somehow (even if you have
>  such a limited access such as FTP or so), you can use the lib pragma to
>  include the unique PM file. Hack after all, but it'd work, actually.
>
>  Good luck.
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It is a Pure Perl module, so push comes to shove you could implement a
subset of its functionality.  I believe the interesting stuff is in
the readline function:

http://search.cpan.org/src/URI/File-ReadBackwards-1.04/ReadBackwards.pm

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Chas. Owens
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