Re: [techtalk] ? re Oracle/SQLPlus

2000-07-05 Thread Sean McAfee
d and SQL term, and the chapters cover RDBMS and Oracle concepts using simple examples. I highly recommend it. However, be aware that it covers very little in the way of Oracle administration, so it's probably not an appropriate book if that's what you're after. -- Sean McAfee |

Re: [techtalk] cgi scripts & html output

2000-05-15 Thread Sean McAfee
rum.pl script and installed it locally, and I can't see the behavior you describe. For example, I entered the three lines "Testing", "Testing", and "1, 2, 3.". The "Submit Preview" page presents the text just as I entered it; the page source looks like th

Re: [techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

2000-05-14 Thread Sean McAfee
d Perl switch that causes it to split input lines on whitespace into the global @F array, making it behave somewhat like awk does. -- Sean McAfee | GCS d->-- s+++: a27 C++ US+++ P+++$ L++ E- W+ N++ | | K w--- O? M- V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP?>++ t+() 5++ X R+ | mcafee@ | tv+

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-04 Thread Sean McAfee
Amanda Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 May 2000, Sean McAfee wrote: >>Allow me to suggest a much shorter alternative: >>perl -i -pe 'tr/\015//d' file1 file2 ... >Actually, the key part of Christian's script is even shorter: >>> then

Re: [techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

2000-05-03 Thread Sean McAfee
/d' file1 file2 ... This will save the original file1 as file1.bak, file2 as file2.bak, etc. Recently I found myself in the strange position of needing to convert a local file to DOS format so I could transmit it to a printer that only grokked the DOS line format. Perl came to the rescu

Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)

2000-02-13 Thread Sean McAfee
that time, because it became more and more irritating having to cycle through several bad pairs of colors to get to an acceptable one, and I finally just settled for white-on-black. -- Sean McAfee | GCS d->-- s+++: a27 C++ US+++ P+++$ L++ E- W+ N++ | | K w--- O? M- V-- PS+ PE Y+

Re: [techtalk] Postgresql and perl...

2000-01-04 Thread Sean McAfee
ql? I did >install the postgresql-perl rpm... I found a short guide to DBI (Perl's "Database Interface Module") at: http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/10/DBI.html I've been using DBI for a couple of years, and would be happy to address questions folks may have on this list. --

Re: [techtalk] Bugzilla and Perl modules for MySql Help!!!

1999-12-02 Thread Sean McAfee
dules-1.2210 perl Makefile.PL find . -mmin -1 # look for files with likely-looking names Usually, if I get impatient looking for the right file to delete, I'll just rm -rf the source distribution and then re-untar it. That always does the trick. -- Sean McAfee | GCS d->-- s+++: a27 C++

Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-17 Thread Sean McAfee
f the code that performed the check; it was easy to find and looked something like the following: if (getuid() != 0) restricted_mode = 1; Then I recompiled, reinstalled, and all was well. That's the beauty of free software. -- Sean McAfee | GCS d->-- s+++: a27 C++ US+++ P+++$ L++ E- W