Re: Documentation

If we could see the script and discuss why it works/ or not for RiscOS it
would be on topic.  

As for worrying about the archives at perl.org - I would not worry there are
far more obscure and less used lists there.  

Its nice to see a little bit of traffic for a change.

Richard 

On Mon 28 Jan, Justin Fletcher wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>
>      Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 28 Jan, you wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[email protected]>,
> > >    Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > > My Perl is not up to seeing how the program can generate the domains
> > > rof and oga - it picks from a wrod list, where these two don't occur.
> >
> > Well, I managed to find the source for this script on the internet, but
> > can no longer - however, from what I remember it doesn't just pick from a
> > word list, it adds random letters, which could (as it does) lead to
> > generating an existing domain.
> 
> Speaking as someone with a random sequence of letters as his domain name
> (movspclr), if this is the case, I suggest that said script not be used.
> Similarly, the Richard said that he wasn't sure how it was generated. Using
> perl scripts that you don't understand on a live system is unwise.
> 
> And finally, this has very little relevance to RISC OS perl. Whilst the
> list is quiet, I think it would be best to at least try to stay on topic.
> I hardly think that anyone searching the perl.org archives wants to know
> about some particular script running or not on a propably long dead system.
> 

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