Re: Noobie question

2001-06-13 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 12:22 pm, Peter Scott wrote: > At 12:05 PM 6/13/01 -0700, Ward, Stefan wrote: > >Does anyone have an example of a way to write a perl script that will go > > out hit a data base table, pull in a column for that table and use that > > column in a dropdown list? I know wha

Re: Noobie question

2001-06-13 Thread Michael D . Risser
At least we were a little more friendly about it, as well as point to some resources that would be more help in the long run. And let's not forget TMTOWTDI. --SNIP-- > Fucking typical. --SNIP-- > I hope this answer is more useful than that suggested by the others.

Re: Noobie question

2001-06-14 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Thursday 14 June 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: > OK I give up > > TMTOWTDI? > There's More Than One Way To Do It

Re: New

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
--SNIP-- > What books are you reading? Hopefully at least one of them is blue with > either a camel or llama on the cover. :-) > > -- Brett > > Why do you say that about the books, is there something special about > O'Reilly books?, besides my O'Reilly book doesn't have a camel or a llama, > but

Re: perl and sendmail

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Friday 15 June 2001 05:09 am, you wrote: > how do I change my char-font or how do I see what is my char-font ??? > !! I'm NOT a Administrator I'm a regular USER That would depend on what your mail client is, if you could tell us I'm sure someone on this list has experience working with it an

Re: Reading versus Referencing Books

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
Well, here's my 2 cents worth: I tend to read about the first 1/4 - 1/2 of a programming book to get the basics down, after that it becomes a reference for me. "How do I do this thing?" I don't think I have ever read cover to cover, though I probably would get a much better understanding if I

Re: Reading versus Referencing Books

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:52 am, you wrote: --SNIP-- > >Which leads me to a question of my own, how about a site/page devoted to > > Perl books and reader reviews??? > > You mean, like > http://www.perl.com/reference/query.cgi?section=books&x=14&y=13 > and > http://www.perl.com/pub/language/critiq

Re: Stuck in the Perl Beginners Panic-Zone!

2001-06-15 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Friday 15 June 2001 01:59 pm, you wrote: > Ok, I'll take a different approach to my question. > > Is there anyone out there who runs their PERL scripts on a Windows Me > driven computer? If so, what version of PERL do you use and "EXACTLY" what > steps do you take to get your scripts to run on

Re: httpd fails to start after installing new perl version

2001-06-22 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 06:46 am, you wrote: > hello all, > > i get the following error message when trying to start the httpd: > > Starting httpd: [Wed Jun 20 15:03:12 2001] [error] Can't locate > Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/

Re: httpd fails to start after installing new perl version

2001-06-22 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Friday 22 June 2001 09:11 am, you wrote: > "Michael D. Risser" schrieb: > > It appears that the RPM for Apache is not picking up your Perl install. I > > personally always install Apache from source, as this avoids problems > > like this. > > > >

GD::Graph

2001-06-22 Thread Michael D . Risser
Does any one knw why I get a red and a green bar side-by-side for the same value when using GD::Graph::bars? Is there any way to stop thjis behavior? I've checked the perldocs on GD::Graph, but can't find anything about it. Here is the code I am using: use GD::Graph::bars; # Get a new

Re: :Graph

2001-06-25 Thread Michael D . Risser
On Sunday 24 June 2001 11:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried your code below but had problems: > First, apache didn't like creating the image in the cgi-bin dir, so I > changed the reference to apache/icons instead of current directory. Perhaps > this is unimportant for your setup. I haven

Field Separator

2002-07-17 Thread Michael D. Risser
Can anyone tell me what the escape sequence for the field seprator (^]) is, or point me to where I can find it? Basically I need to do a split on it to parse some records. TIA -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administrator = Machine Vision Products, Inc

Pods

2002-08-28 Thread Michael D. Risser
Does anyone know where, or how to determine where, pods for installed modules are? I have several modules whose pods I would like to convert to html, but I don't know where they live, such as Date::Tie. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administ

Re: Pods

2002-08-28 Thread Michael D. Risser
the tarballs around. On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:02, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Aug 28, Michael D. Risser said: > > >Does anyone know where, or how to determine where, pods for installed > >modules are? > > *Most* modules have the pod contained in their source

Microsoft Word Documents

2002-03-13 Thread Michael D. Risser
I have searched CPAN, but so far no luck. Does anyone know of a module or Perl script that can parse MS Word .doc files? I'm trying to add the ability to display these files in a web browser to a document managment system I found on the web. Thanks in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: Array question...

2002-03-28 Thread Michael D. Risser
On Thursday 28 March 2002 08:54 am, you wrote: > OK here's the problem: > > I have an array that may or may not have been assigned to, if it has been > assigned to I need to do one thing, otherwise I need to do something else. > > I've tried many variations, but I'm having trouble determining if i

Array question...

2002-03-28 Thread Michael D. Risser
OK here's the problem: I have an array that may or may not have been assigned to, if it has been assigned to I need to do one thing, otherwise I need to do something else. I've tried many variations, but I'm having trouble determining if it has been assigned to. if(undef @myArray) { # Do

Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, however I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not in the manner I expect ;-) Here's the relevant offending code: my @lsLib = ("libListTree.a", "libXpm.a", "libfalk.a",

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
On Monday 08 April 2002 11:46 am, bob ackerman wrote: > On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Michael D. Risser wrote: > > I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, > > however > > I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
Thanks! That did the trick, I *KNEW* there had to be a better way to do it, I just didn't know what it was :-) On Monday 08 April 2002 01:43 pm, John W. Krahn wrote: > > sub check() { > > my ($dir,@toCheck) = @_; > > my $last = @toCheck; > > my $i; > > my $valid;

Re: (OT) Klez virus

2002-05-02 Thread Michael D. Risser
le using Outlook may like to check they are using the latest virus > scanners.. > > Thanks > > Oh yeah, Keep up the good advice,I have been able to work around many > problems with the information offered here! > > Mark. > > > + > + If I had a really witty signatur

Re: (OT) Klez virus

2002-05-02 Thread Michael D. Risser
#x27;t think virus writers know my passphrase to encrypt thier virus > for outgoing mail. > > 8^P > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Michael D. Risser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:38 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subje

Re: Help request for backup perl script

2001-08-22 Thread Michael D. Risser
uot;tar -z -cf area.tgz ../Mud/area/|cp area.tgz archive/area_$backupdate.tgz"); I was having the same problem with a similar script and that fixed it. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brand New!

2001-08-22 Thread Michael D. Risser
ow I'll run up against problems. > > Any help? > > My appreciation for your time in advance - I know how valuable all of > our time is. > > Bill Have you tried escaping (i.e. placing a backslash \ in front of) the *'x +'s and .'s These are special characters used in RegEx, so if you are searching for any of these they should be escaped. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphical interface

2001-09-03 Thread Michael D. Risser
nd Unix platforms. > Qt and Gtk seem to be useful only for C(++) programs > but not for perl. Is it true? > > Thanx for any advice. > > Dusan Juhas Try the Perl port of wxWindows at www.wxwindows.org, I don't no how well it well handle internationalization, but it is an o

Problems with @INC and CPAN

2001-09-18 Thread Michael D. Risser
I'm having a little difficulty with @INC, a script I'm trying to run, actually part of bugzilla, says it can't find DBI.pm in @INC, I've manually searched those directories and can't find it, but CPAN says DBI.pm is up to date. Any ideas on how to fix this??? -- M

GDBM_File problems

2001-09-20 Thread Michael D. Risser
he above function comes from the 'Programming the Perl DBI' book. The problem is when I run this script I get the following error message: Uncaught exception from user code: Unable to initialise database: main::reqTester called at ./wreq-mysql.pl line 44 Commenting out th

Re: Windows programming in Perl

2001-09-26 Thread Michael D. Risser
(available from CPAN as Tk) 2. wxPerl (available from wxperl.org) Tk is a decent enough GUI, but wxPerl (which is a Perl port of wxWindows) provides a more Window(ish) feel to it, and provides a richer widget set. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer = Mach

Re: build perl on Solaris

2001-10-01 Thread Michael D. Risser
sun's > ld,as,ar and make. > --SNIP-- I have encountered this problem as well, but so far forcing the install of the module(s) seems to work just fine, i.e. cpan> force install Net::FTP (for cpan) Or just skip the test if building the module(s) by hand. -- Michael D. Risser

Re: Please Stop (was: Re: eval problem)

2001-10-04 Thread Michael D. Risser
anks, > Nelson And to do so in a friendly, non-demeaning manner :-) -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer = Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl compiling environment for win98.

2001-10-04 Thread Michael D. Risser
ly a way to run Unix on Windows, it comes with Perl, all of the standard GNU build tools, bash, even XFree86 has been ported to Cygwin so you can write Perl/Tk or wxPerl apps that will run on Unix. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer = Machine Vision Products,

Re: apache can't run cgi scripts

2001-10-25 Thread Michael D. Risser
d everyone else), to do this (if you don't already know) at the command line as root, or the owner of the scripts, in the directory where the script(s) is/are type: chmod 755 or chmod 755 * This is a problem that I have encountered numerous times myself, I seem to just about always forget

Re: Graph generation...

2001-10-30 Thread Michael D. Risser
e me a guidance > Thanks and Regards, > Durga Prasad Have you also taken a look at GD::Graph? -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administrator = Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version:

Re: Silly problem

2001-11-03 Thread Michael D. Risser
se(FH); > > printing @test works fine but it appends a new line. The code also > won't assign $1 to the IP address? > > Is it something simple I am doing wrong? > > Regards, > > Dan > > == > VINTEK CONSULTING PTY LTD > (ACN 088

Comparison problem

2001-11-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
#<--Remove Before Flight--| my $j = 1; # Go through each file we found for(my $i = 0; $i <= $numFiles;$i++) { if ($file != $j) { print "Sending missing for file: $i"; &sendMissing; $j++; next; } } -- Michael D. Riss

Re: Can perl dynamically modify images?

2001-11-12 Thread Michael D. Risser
Thanks :) > > Joel This is VERY possible, and you have a couple of choices: The GD module which requires GD, or the PerlMagick module which requires ImageMagick. -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administrator = Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionp

Re: Comparison problem

2001-11-16 Thread Michael D. Risser
&pause; next; } -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administrator = Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For inf

Re: Comparison problem

2001-11-16 Thread Michael D. Risser
> that was my try. > seeing your for, it's like j is always one under i since you initialize > it at 1 and i at 2. $i gets initialized to 2 so that it skips . and .. produced by reading the filesnames into an array (I'm sure theres a better way, but this works ;-))

Re: stupid question

2001-11-19 Thread Michael D. Risser
h qwert here since its not quoted i.e. 'qwert' or "qwert" ;-) > if ($password eq 'qwert') Here eq is doing its job :-) > > { > > print"Correct\n"; > > } > > else > >

Re: Install DBD with CPAN

2001-11-19 Thread Michael D. Risser
then run /sbin/ldconfig. Or you can edit Makefile.pl to point to the right place to look for MySQL. There may be other ways, but these have worked for me ;-) -- Michael D. Risser Software Engineer/Linux Administrator = Machine Vision Products, Inc. www.visionpro.com [E

Re: press return to continue

2001-11-29 Thread Michael D. Risser
gt; --Enjoy every moment of the day; Live like as if today was your last day > > alive, and perhaps, it might be. > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site ho

Re: Not creating home dir....

2001-12-14 Thread Michael D. Risser
= new Unix::PasswdFile "/etc/passwd"; > $pw->user("$new_user", $pw->encpass("$new_pass"), $pw->maxuid + 1, 45, > "$new_fname $new_lname", "/home/$new_user", "/bin/false"); > $pw-&g