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2003-12-04 Thread B. Fongo
Hi I'm writing a script that will connect to an ftp server (Redhat mirror), and download new versions of all packages that are on my machine. First of all, the script collects information about all the packages installed on my machine in an array (installed_packages). Then its goes on to get a

[REBUILT] Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
It was Thursday, December 04, 2003 when Chuck Fox took the soap box, saying: : Casey, : : I would like to chime in on the side of sending the search results : directly to the poster. In most cases, the poster is at the mercy of : the search engine they choose. Whereas, you have the advantage of

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Chuck Fox
Casey, I would like to chime in on the side of sending the search results directly to the poster. In most cases, the poster is at the mercy of the search engine they choose. Whereas, you have the advantage of knowing where to search. Please do not abandon this work. A digest -- to which, o

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying: : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful. : :-) : : I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I

Re: Passing the hash

2003-12-04 Thread drieux
On Dec 4, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Mangin wrote: [..] This is a pretty old book and I'm wondering if there's a newer, better way? I wish to be able to achieve what would be the results of this (if it were possible): if ($CGI->param("Screen3")) { showmeScreen3($CGI, %widgets); } ... but, of co

Passing the hash

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Mangin
Hello all... In my example-driven world I find [something like] this in 'CGI Programming with Perl', constructed in main:: if ($CGI->param("Screen3")) { showmeScreen3($CGI); } elsif ($CGI->param("Screen2")) { showmeScreen2($CGI); } else { showmeScreen1($CGI); } This is a pretty old book

Re: pass a variable from php to the perl file

2003-12-04 Thread drieux
On Dec 4, 2003, at 7:24 AM, Ciko Parera wrote: [..] I am trying to call a perl script from php (with shell_exec) and pass a variable to the perl file I need to get the value of a variable  from a PHP script, and put it into my perl script Does anyone know how I do this? [..] Since you are going to

RE: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Shaw, Matthew
My $0.02 on this: While it may be a worthwhile personal pursuit to write a script that provides relevant results from google based on the text of someone's email/news posting/etc, I don't think this is the forum for it. These are very busy lists to start with and this essentially will result in do

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
It was Thursday, December 04, 2003 when Wiggins d Anconia took the soap box, saying: : : : > It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, : saying: : > : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are : > : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying: : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful. : :-) I should like to make an important note. This bot is not intended to de

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher G Tantalo
Casey West wrote: I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful. :-) I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I find that it does a bad job. Casey West This does seem like a good id

Re: pass a variable from php to the perl file

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
Hi. I'm in the employ of Casey West, a list admin, to assist you with your question. I've taken the liberty to search Google using the Subject line you provided in your email to the list. I hope one of the links below will be of service to you. Sadly Google hasn't given us a nice, legal API for s

pass a variable from php to the perl file

2003-12-04 Thread Ciko Parera
hi everyone,I am trying to call a perl script from php (with shell_exec) and pass a variable to the perl fileI need to get the value of a variable from a PHP script, and put it into my perl script Does anyone know how I do this?   thanks   _

Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> It was Wednesday, December 03, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying: > : I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are > : posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful. > : :-) > > I should like to make an important note. This bot is not

Re: Perl script problems

2003-12-04 Thread Casey West
Hi. I'm in the employ of Casey West, a list admin, to assist you with your question. I've taken the liberty to search Google using the Subject line you provided in your email to the list. I hope one of the links below will be of service to you. Sadly Google hasn't given us a nice, legal API for s

Perl script problems

2003-12-04 Thread AG
I maintain a few Majordomo based mailing lists. Some of my users have complained about the cryptic nature of interacting w/Majordomo. As a result, I've been tinkering w/MailServ v4.4 for ~2mths. Most GUI front-ends are Perl based. There aren't any user mailiing list for users who were having pr