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Dave Gray wrote: > On 6/9/05, Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>4. Speed/Forking: because backticks causes a fork, you are using system >>resources in a way you wouldn't necessarily need to if you were able to >>use a built-in function. When Perl forks, it forks an exact copy of the

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On 6/9/05, Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. Speed/Forking: because backticks causes a fork, you are using system > resources in a way you wouldn't necessarily need to if you were able to > use a built-in function. When Perl forks, it forks an exact copy of the > running process and

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On 6/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I whole heartedly agree! > > top post rules! Apparently, so does Lotus Notes. My deepest sympathies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Larsen, Errin M HMMA/IT wrote: > << VERY fascinating discussions about the pros and cons of top-posting > SNIPPED>> > > While I'm sure the arguments for and against the top-posting practices > of Internet email lists are wonderful, perhaps we can change the > subject of these emails. I keep hopin

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<< VERY fascinating discussions about the pros and cons of top-posting SNIPPED>> While I'm sure the arguments for and against the top-posting practices of Internet email lists are wonderful, perhaps we can change the subject of these emails. I keep hoping someone will tell me more about the OP's

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any suggestions for Lotus Notes? Short of "don't use Notes for mailing lists; sign up for them using a webmail or other personal mail accout" ... no, not really. Outlook has some broken defaults, but it's at least fixable. Notes is just plain broke

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Any suggestions for Lotus Notes? Use a separate text editor to phrase replies. I often do this with Outlook with any but the most trivial response. My editor has macros and other features which are too difficult to do in Outlook. Co

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On Jun 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Any suggestions for Lotus Notes? Eww. Don't use Lotus? Seriously though, in your reply, because of the way Lotus Notes formats the email, there's no way of easily detecting (in my email program, PINE) where the old text ends and your reply begins. -- Je

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ryan Frantz wrote: Spot the flaw. Please get Outlook-QuoteFix. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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> Ryan Frantz wrote: > > For the purposes of this list, I shall always post intelligently as > > has been stated ... For continuity, I > > would suggest everyone does the same. > > Excellent suggestion. > > For those who would like to post replies in the preferred > "conversational" > style or "

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Ryan Frantz wrote: > For the purposes of this list, I shall always post intelligently as > has been stated ... For continuity, I > would suggest everyone does the same. Excellent suggestion. For those who would like to post replies in the preferred "conversational" style or "inline" style (or wha

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> You don't have to. Intelligent posters quote what they need, > editing out the superfluous stuff. Note how the comments go > close to the quoted material? > I'll take that one on the chin. ;) > > users don't even realize that there is a reply in > > bottom-posted emails. > > "Look, that idio

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I whole heartedly agree! > > top post rules! well, it certainly doesn't require the poster to spend much thought on his post. Hit reply, press some keys, done. Readability be damned, and who cares about bandwidth and storage anymore? Probably "Ryan

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>I, being too lazy to look up a perl function, would use >> >>hostname command in >> >>>backticks like so: >>> >>>$HostID = `hostname`; >>> >> >>Right which is why the above is "too lazy". Anyone reading this please >>don't settle for the above, it is error prone, insecu

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/; > > Right, in which case we can at least suggest 'chomp', Matter of preference really. I like using regex. > > > > -Original Message----- > > From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:36 PM > > To: be

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> > "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." It's true all over. The polite > thing to do when participating in *any* group -- not just > this one, not > just internet stuff, but any human interaction -- is to adapt your > manner of presenting yourself to be in harmony with the group. > > If you not

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Ryan Frantz wrote: > Sure, don't top-post. But then who's gonna bother to scroll to the > end of the email as the thread gets longer? Polite people trim their replies to avoid this problem. > Many users don't even realize that there is a reply in bottom-posted > emails. Bro

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OTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: host id "Because it's up-side down. Why is that? It makes replies harder to read. Why not? Please don't top-post." - Sherm Pendley, Mac OS X list [EMAIL

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EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:36 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: host id > > > Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and > would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there > a function to d

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] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 3:36 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: host id Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there a function to do this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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Bret Goodfellow wrote: Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there a function to do this? This may be what you want: perldoc Sys::Hostname John -- use Perl; program fulfillment

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Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there a function to do this?