Re: is somebody using this machine ?

2001-04-27 Thread Ted W.
In the second approach you would probably be better off writing a screen saver in 'some other language' and have the screen saver evoke the perl script. The downside to that is that I am not sure that you can specify which, if any, screen saver runs when no one is logged in. For the first approa

Re: net::telnet

2001-04-11 Thread Ted W.
I have no familiarity with the Net::Telnet module, but I believe the SU syntax is actually 'SU -' to open a shell that you can log into. TW On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, John Williams wrote: > I've had success with the Net::Telnet module. But I can't get the SU > command to work. It times out waiting

Re: using FetchURL with Login Screens????

2001-03-30 Thread Ted W.
You can put the Username and PW in the URL as; http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That will prevent the pop-up from popping up TW On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Brian Gibson wrote: > I presently use the FetchURL function to grab web pages and parse > them out. > > I have one page I have to test connect

RE: Regexp?

2001-01-19 Thread Ted W.
Does not the m// when used like: count = m//ig; ? TW On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Cornish, Merrill wrote: > s/// will return the number of replacements it makes. If you replace the > substring with itself, then you will get the count without _appearing_ to > make any replacements. > > Merrill > > >