RE: Why my boss doesn't want Perl...

2002-05-13 Thread roger . day
At 13/05/2002 13:50:39, "Tillman, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # > aren't all viruses written in VB? # > # > Then again, use perl: move away from the M$ monoculture. # # I can see where the wording of my response might have caused this confusion. # # We're discussing hackers using the t

RE: Why my boss doesn't want Perl...

2002-05-13 Thread Tillman, James
> aren't all viruses written in VB? > > Then again, use perl: move away from the M$ monoculture. I can see where the wording of my response might have caused this confusion. We're discussing hackers using the true meaning of the word, which is "a programmer who loves his craft", not "a stupid j

Re: Preferred PERL Editor

2002-05-13 Thread John_Wunderlich
My vote goes to TextPad. Not free, but reasonable, and you can work with the download. JW Conor Lillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Why my boss doesn't want Perl...

2002-05-13 Thread roger . day
aren't all viruses written in VB? Then again, use perl: move away from the M$ monoculture. At 10/05/2002 13:58:02, "Tillman, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # > Biggest problem I can find with Perl is that it is free, and # > relatively easy. # # Agreed! # # > I suppose there are a lot of

Re: Reverse Engineering

2002-05-13 Thread Johan Lindstrom
At 12:06 2002-05-13 +0100, Batchelor, Gareth wrote: >I recently used PerlApp to create a Win32 executable from a perl script that >I wrote. Unfortunately I have just lost the source code, and I would like to >find out if there is any way for me to obtain the code from the executable. >Does anyone

RE: Reverse Engineering

2002-05-13 Thread Tillman, James
I seem to remember from using an older version of PerlApp that it actually extracted the perl source into temporary files when it ran. If this is still true, it might be possible to locate the temporary files... I have to admit, this is a shot in the dark for me, because that was a looong time a

Reverse Engineering

2002-05-13 Thread Batchelor, Gareth
Hi, I recently used PerlApp to create a Win32 executable from a perl script that I wrote. Unfortunately I have just lost the source code, and I would like to find out if there is any way for me to obtain the code from the executable. Does anyone know if this can be done? TIA Gareth ***

RE: Re: Preferred PERL Editor

2002-05-13 Thread Sundara Rajan
The site URL is/was right but it seems to have got hacked or something ...i know this seems odder but try I just tried it and it seems to work -Original Message- From: Abner, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:58 PM To: 'Mark B

RE: Doubt in DB_File module

2002-05-13 Thread Sundara Rajan
Ponnam The file you are trying to create already exists as a text file and so cannot be created as a DB - which is why it fails. Open the team.txt first and pass the value into a hash/array/variables first and then push values into the db. the db should be called something else. se warnings ;

Re:Delete a line and replace

2002-05-13 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, i have this file /etc/passwd like this: Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0:: SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-LININF54\Administrator,S-1-5-21-175 7981266-2139871995-725345543-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash anonymous:un

Re: Preferred PERL Editor

2002-05-13 Thread Denis Pleic
Hi folks, For those looking for something powerful (emacs-style), but are intimidated by sheer size of (X)Emacs on either Windows or Linux, I wholehartedly recommend Jasspa MicroEmacs (www.jasspa.com). It's GPLed, works on both platforms, and is rather small (can be squeezed to under 1MB for

RE: Re[2]: Beating the fork() horse to death...

2002-05-13 Thread John Serink
That is handy to know. Thanx for the info. Cheers, John > -Original Message- > From: Eugeniy Ogloblin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re[2]: Beating the fork() horse to death... > > > Hello John, > > Monday, May 13, 20