At 5:48 PM -0700 8/29/06, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote: >Craig Berry quoted Chuck Aaron: > >> I know nothing about OSU and can only speculate about what might be >> wrong, but I see in Alan Winston's book, "OpenVMS with Apache, OSU, >> and WASD," p. 309, , that OSU, "looks for webperl, then looks for >> perl, then looks for miniperl...." If you don't have Alan's book, >> you shouldn't be running a VMS-based web server, or, to state it more >> positively, anyone running a VMS-based web server should have Alan's >> book. > >Shucks. If I ever manage to find the time to write the 2nd edition, can I ues >that quote?
Well, the back cover already looks pretty well sprinkled with authoritative endorsements, but sure, go ahead. What was impressive to me was that in 30 seconds with the index I found out enough about how OSU searches for a Perl to run to realize that the unsuccessful search for miniperl was really a last chance attempt to find something and not what it really wanted. If you do update the book, note that it was Charles Lane, not Charles Bailey, who developed CRINOID (p. 366). The correct attribution appears on p. 343. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
