Re: Advanced Users in The Beginners List

2002-06-29 Thread Ronnie Livingston
> A decent newsreader does more than just allow you to read. It keeps track > of which messages you already read, it only downloads headers and so you > can choose which bodies to retrieve, it lets you post and reply, score the > articles and you can setup a killfile. > ah I see, any recommendati

Re: Advanced Users in The Beginners List

2002-06-29 Thread Ronnie Livingston
I sympathize with Yasen since I have the exact same problem. I often find that I delete most of the messages before I read them due to the overwhelming numbers. btw, thanks for the link Felix there is now a webinterface for the archives so one doesnt need a newsreader http://nntp.x.perl.org/grou

Re: perl with unix commands

2002-06-14 Thread Ronnie Livingston
doh, that did it. thanks felix. -Ronnie On 14 Jun 2002, Felix Geerinckx wrote: > on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:43:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronnie > Livingston) wrote: > > > Hi, I have a textfile with a list of gifs (ex. planet.gif, > > star.gif)and I have a perl program w

perl with unix commands

2002-06-13 Thread Ronnie Livingston
Hi, I have a textfile with a list of gifs (ex. planet.gif, star.gif)and I have a perl program which grabs one of the filenames randomly. What I want to do is use the filename and copy it to random.gif but I keep getting the error: cp: cannot access planet.gif I have been using this in my perl p