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Log:
Sync with perforce.
Further perl.org URL elaboration from Ask.
Use the perl.org news gw instead of the perl.com one
(from Ask).
A bit of "perl.com" cleanup.
FAQ sync (RCS Ids only?)
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/11/19 17:09:37 $)
+perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -1296,14 +1296,13 @@
=head2 Where to get the perlfaq
This document is posted regularly to comp.lang.perl.announce and
-several other related newsgroups. It is available in a variety of
-formats from CPAN in the /CPAN/doc/FAQs/FAQ/ directory or on the web
-at http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/ .
+several other related newsgroups. It is available on many
+web sites: http://www.perldoc.com/ and http://perlfaq.cpan.org/ .
=head2 How to contribute to the perlfaq
You may mail corrections, additions, and suggestions to
[email protected] . This alias should not be
[email protected] . This alias should not be
used to I<ask> FAQs. It's for fixing the current FAQ.
Send questions to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
@@ -1311,7 +1310,7 @@
Your questions will probably go unread, unless they're suggestions of
new questions to add to the FAQ, in which case they should have gone
-to the [email protected] instead.
+to the [email protected] instead.
You should have read section 2 of this faq. There you would have
learned that comp.lang.perl.misc is the appropriate place to go for
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=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -35,8 +35,12 @@
In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters)
are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
-money. You may snoop on pending developments via
-nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/
+money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at
+http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
+and http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/
+or the news gateway news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or
+its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters ,
+or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq,
or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
[email protected] a subscription request
(an empty message with no subject is fine).
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or
http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category.
+CPAN is not affiliated with O'Reilly and Associates.
=head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
@@ -184,7 +185,8 @@
There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack
Perl development team (perl5-porters) at
-news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ .
+news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at
+http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters .
=head2 Where should I post source code?
@@ -493,7 +495,7 @@
Read the perlbug(1) man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information.
-=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
+=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by
The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
@@ -518,6 +520,10 @@
http://lists.perl.org/
http://news.perl.org/
http://use.perl.org/
+
+http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network,
+a replicated worlwide repository of Perl software, see
+the I<What is CPAN?> question earlier in this document.
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2001/11/19 17:09:37 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.11 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
Regexes perlre, perlfunc, perlop, perllocale
Moving to perl5 perltrap, perl
Linking w/C perlxstut, perlxs, perlcall, perlguts, perlembed
- Various http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/index.html
- (not a man-page but still useful)
+ Various http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz
+ (not a man-page but still useful, a collection
+ of various essays on Perl techniques)
A crude table of contents for the Perl manpage set is found in L<perltoc>.
@@ -154,13 +155,9 @@
as it were. A more complete example, with comments, can be found at
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
-If you are used to using the I<vgrind> program for printing out nice code
-to a laser printer, you can take a stab at this using
-http://www.cpan.org/doc/misc/tips/working.vgrind.entry, but the
-results are not particularly satisfying for sophisticated code.
-
-The a2ps at http://www.infres.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/ does lots of things
-related to generating nicely printed output of documents.
+The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps does
+lots of things related to generating nicely printed output of
+documents, as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/.
=head2 Is there a ctags for Perl?
@@ -873,9 +870,13 @@
=head2 Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
A good place to start is L<perltoot>, and you can use L<perlobj>,
-L<perlboot>, and L<perlbot> for reference. Perltoot didn't come out
-until the 5.004 release; you can get a copy (in pod, html, or
-postscript) from http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/ .
+L<perlboot>, L<perltoot>, L<perltooc>, and L<perlbot> for reference.
+(If you are using really old Perl, you may not have all of these,
+try http://www.perldoc.com/ , but consider upgrading your perl.)
+
+A good book on OO on Perl is the "Object-Oriented Perl"
+by Damian Conway from Manning Publications,
+http://www.manning.com/Conway/index.html
=head2 Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2002/01/01 22:26:45 $)
+perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.11 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -333,10 +333,11 @@
than more.
Computers are good at being predictable and bad at being random
-(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-).
-http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/random , courtesy of Tom
-Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone who
-attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
+(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-). see the
+F<random> artitcle in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know"
+collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz , courtesy of
+Tom Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone
+who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
course, living in a state of sin.''
If you want numbers that are more random than C<rand> with C<srand>
@@ -1473,8 +1474,9 @@
This can be conveniently combined with precalculation of keys as given
above.
-See http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/sort.html for more about
-this approach.
+See the F<sort> artitcle article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted
+To Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz for
+more about this approach.
See also the question below on sorting hashes.
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=head1 NAME
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2001/12/19 18:17:00 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -1128,9 +1128,9 @@
=head2 Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
-This is elaborately and painstakingly described in the "Far More Than
-You Ever Wanted To Know" in
-http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/file-dir-perms .
+This is elaborately and painstakingly described in the
+F<file-dir-perms> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
+Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz .
The executive summary: learn how your filesystem works. The
permissions on a file say what can happen to the data in that file.
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=head1 NAME
-perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -634,9 +634,10 @@
Note that you I<must> use Bourne shell (sh(1)) redirection syntax in
backticks, not csh(1)! Details on why Perl's system() and backtick
-and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in
-http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
-To capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
+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
+capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
$output = `cmd 2>&1`; # either with backticks
$pid = open(PH, "cmd 2>&1 |"); # or with an open pipe
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