cvsuser 02/08/25 13:10:29
Modified: . perlfaq3.pod perlfaq4.pod perlfaq5.pod perlfaq8.pod
Log:
* updated some URLs
* fixed some typos in perlfaq4
Revision Changes Path
1.25 +3 -3 perlfaq/perlfaq3.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq3.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.24
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--- perlfaq3.pod 8 Jul 2002 03:39:42 -0000 1.24
+++ perlfaq3.pod 25 Aug 2002 20:10:29 -0000 1.25
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.24 $, $Date: 2002/07/08 03:39:42 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.25 $, $Date: 2002/08/25 20:10:29 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
as it were. A more complete example, with comments, can be found at
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
-The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps does
+The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps.gz does
lots of things related to generating nicely printed output of
documents, as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/ .
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
The Curses module from CPAN provides a dynamically loadable object
module interface to a curses library. A small demo can be found at the
-directory http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep ;
+directory http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep.gz ;
this program repeats a command and updates the screen as needed, rendering
B<rep ps axu> similar to B<top>.
1.30 +5 -5 perlfaq/perlfaq4.pod
Index: perlfaq4.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq4.pod,v
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--- perlfaq4.pod 22 Aug 2002 00:06:27 -0000 1.29
+++ perlfaq4.pod 25 Aug 2002 20:10:29 -0000 1.30
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.29 $, $Date: 2002/08/22 00:06:27 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.30 $, $Date: 2002/08/25 20:10:29 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -335,13 +335,13 @@
If you're using a version of Perl before 5.004, you must call C<srand>
once at the start of your program to seed the random number generator.
5.004 and later automatically call C<srand> at the beginning. Don't
-call C<srand> more than once--you make your numbers less random, rather
+call C<srand> more than once---you make your numbers less random, rather
than more.
Computers are good at being predictable and bad at being random
(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-). see the
-F<random> artitcle in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know"
-collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz , courtesy of
+F<random> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know"
+collection in http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz , courtesy of
Tom Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone
who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
course, living in a state of sin.''
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@
above.
See the F<sort> artitcle article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted
-To Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz for
+To Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz for
more about this approach.
See also the question below on sorting hashes.
1.23 +2 -2 perlfaq/perlfaq5.pod
Index: perlfaq5.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq5.pod,v
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--- perlfaq5.pod 22 Aug 2002 00:05:50 -0000 1.22
+++ perlfaq5.pod 25 Aug 2002 20:10:29 -0000 1.23
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.22 $, $Date: 2002/08/22 00:05:50 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 2002/08/25 20:10:29 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@
This is elaborately and painstakingly described in the
F<file-dir-perms> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
-Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz .
+Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz .
The executive summary: learn how your filesystem works. The
permissions on a file say what can happen to the data in that file.
1.12 +3 -3 perlfaq/perlfaq8.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq8.pod,v
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--- perlfaq8.pod 25 Jun 2002 21:31:50 -0000 1.11
+++ perlfaq8.pod 25 Aug 2002 20:10:29 -0000 1.12
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.11 $, $Date: 2002/06/25 21:31:50 $)
+perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2002/08/25 20:10:29 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
backticks, not csh(1)! Details on why Perl's system() and backtick
and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in the
F<versus/csh.whynot> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
-Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz . To
+Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz . To
capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
$output = `cmd 2>&1`; # either with backticks
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@
=head2 How do I use an SQL database?
There are a number of excellent interfaces to SQL databases. See the
-DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/DBD .
+DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/ .
A lot of information on this can be found at http://dbi.perl.org/
=head2 How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
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