perldoc

perldoc under Win32 currently defaults to -t (display as text) with no way to override. There is a version of GNU groff available for Win32 that would allow viewing as formatted text pages, which is much easier to read. I made a few minor changes to perldoc to allow viewi

Re: desktop backgroundimg

Kristofer Wolff wrote: > hi, > does anyboys know, how to set the Windows backgroundimage on a > desktop ? Briefly tested (not -u option): #!perl -w -- use strict; use Win32::API; our %A; for (my $ii = 0; $ii < @ARGV; ) { # get switches last if $ARGV[$ii] =~ /^--$/; if (

Unfamiliar with PPM...

Hi all, I am trying to install some packages using PPM and I keep getting the following error no matter what I try and install... Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPMConfig::ppmconfig" (perhaps you forgot to load "PPM::XML::PPMConfig::ppmconfig"?) at D:/Programs/P

RE: desktop backgroundimg

If you want windows to apply the new registry settings immediately you'll also have to use this Win32 API command: SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, theBmp, SPIF_SENDCHANGE) ...where theBmp is the name of the bitmap to set things to. I've made a zip file with C source code, Visual S

Perl modules for stock market technicals

Hi all, Does anyone know if there are public domain Perl modules to do the standard stock technical analysis calculations ? Like moving averages, stochastics, etc ? Any lead is appreciated, Eugene Haimov. ___ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: Multi-threading with filehandles

> And yes, my project extends beyond the capabilities of > simply creating several text files. Will this work: --- use strict; use IO::Tee; use vars qw(@fh); for my $i (1,2,3,4) { push @fh, ">a$i.txt", ">b$i.txt", ">c$i.txt"; } my $tee = new IO::Tee(@fh); print $tee 'Hello world'; --- __

Re: IP -> MAC-Address

You could test the operating system type using the Perl special variable $^O and compare it to the list of operating systems provided in the Perl online docs under "Perlport". If NT then use NBSTAT or some other method. If UNIX use "ifconfig" and parse the out put. I'm pretty sure the ETHERS param

RE: Multi-threading with filehandles

Robert Vaughn writes: > Kevin, > Thanks for the help. I have not been able to find any > good examples or documentation regarding POSIX on > ActiveState. Any advice? If you mean the POSIX perl module then see 'perldoc POSIX'. If you mean POSIX threads then a book on the subject would be mor

RE: desktop backgroundimg

Change the reg key hkcu\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper to the path & filename of the file. I believe there is a win32 package to manipulate the registry but I haven't used it \\Greg Martin CSC Collaborative Team Lead > -Original Message- > From: Paul O'Russa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Regexp needed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, i have this: > $toto1="Transitionned to assigned by lmiso to W_VAL3G_SOP on 29/11/2001 > 15:20:46"; > $toto2="Transitionned to concluded by elohez on 1/2/2002 7:47:31"; > > > $toto1=~/^Transitionned to ([^ ]*) by ([^ ]*)( to ([^ ]*))? on ([^ ]*)/; > > pr