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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: perl on Alpha AXP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 22 Nov 92 18:41:21 GMT

In article <2B0DC2D4.20446@news.service.uci.edu> I wrote:
>I used the hints that Marc Evans posted a couple of months ago to get
>perl 4.035 to compile and pass the tests.  However, it doesn't work
>quite right.  When I try to run Tom Christiansen's makewhatis script
>(part of his excellent man package), perl seg faults compiling the
>script (it even dies if I use perl -c makewhatis). 

Some more information:  perl is dying trying to parse this line in
the makewhatis script:

	    if ($filext !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {

I've included the last part of the output of perl -D32767 of makewhatis
for anyone who understands it.


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Tokener at if ($filext !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Received token IF
Reduce by (39) "label : /* empty */"
State 6, token IF
State 22, token -none-
Tokener at  ($filext !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Tokener at ($filext !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Received token (
State 92, token -none-
Tokener at $filext !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Received token REG
State 40, token -none-
Tokener at !~ /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Received token NMATCH
Reduce by (94) "term : REG"
0x4003f750: (01634) malloc 32 bytes
State 29, token NMATCH
Reduce by (77) "sexpr : term"
State 27, token NMATCH
State 121, token -none-
Tokener at  /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
Tokener at /^${dirext}.*/ && $mandir ne 'mano') {
0x40045a10: (01635) malloc 56 bytes
0x4003f950: (01636) malloc 48 bytes
0x4003f990: (01637) malloc 39 bytes
0x4003f9d0: (01638) malloc 32 bytes
0x40045a90: (01639) malloc 56 bytes
0x40045b10: (01640) malloc 56 bytes
0x4003fa10: (01641) malloc 40 bytes
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: perl on Alpha AXP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 21 Nov 92 05:02:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.063505.4001@ulrik.uio.no> tleifsen@astro.uio.no (Torben Leifsen) writes:
>
>Has anyone ported perl to Digitals Alpha AXP/OSF-1 yet?
>

I used the hints that Marc Evans posted a couple of months ago to get
perl 4.035 to compile and pass the tests.  However, it doesn't work
quite right.  When I try to run Tom Christiansen's makewhatis script
(part of his excellent man package), perl seg faults compiling the
script (it even dies if I use perl -c makewhatis).  I've included the
output of dbx 'where' below.  I'm not sure how to proceed from here,
so if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. 

One other note:  nm dies trying to output the symbols in libdbm.a
during Configure.  I took -ldbm out of the library list and nm worked
fine and perl linked with no problems.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926


Script started on Fri Nov 20 18:55:24 1992
dec% /dcs/etc/makewhatis -M .
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
dec% dbx /dcs/bin/perl core
dbx version 9.0.1
Type 'help' for help.

signal Segmentation fault at   [hfetch:76 +0x18,0x1200653fc]	 Source not available
(dbx) where
>  0 hfetch(0x140014088, 0x14000f448, 0x0, 0x1, 0x2f) ["hash.c":76, 0x1200653fc]
   1 stabent(0x14000f448, 0x1, 0x14000f448, 0x2f, 0x140002ca0) ["stab.c":896, 0x12004a6a4]
   2 scanpat(0x14002a02a, 0x1, 0x14000f848, 0x120052c44, 0x120015ce8) ["toke.c":1748, 0x12005dfe0]
   3 yylex(0x3, 0x1400704c8, 0x140070748, 0x0, 0x0) ["toke.c":682, 0x120052c54]
   4 yyparse(0x140012708, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0x0, 0x14000ef75, 0x3fefffff6d0) ["perly.c":1923, 0x120066c70]
   5 main(0x3, 0x3fefffffad0, 0x3fefffffaf0, 0x0, 0x3feffffffa0) ["perl.c":710, 0x12003e21c]
(dbx) quit
dec% ^Dexit

script done on Fri Nov 20 18:56:18 1992
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: donghao@leland.Stanford.EDU (dong hao zhang)
Subject: How to output % symbol in perl
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 00:48:13 GMT

Suppose we run a file like the following:

#! /usr/pubsw/bin/perl
printf STDOUT "\% A Latex Picture. \n";

The output of the above file is:
A Latex Picture. 
instead of the desired: % A Latex Picture.

Any idea why the backslash does not protect the % symbol from 
being interpreted ? And how may I output the % symbol with a perl script?
 
Thanks for any help.

Dong Hao Zhang                         donghao@leland.stanford.edu
From: bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe)
Subject: Non blocking open of FIFO: Can it be done in perl?
Summary: Is it possible to open a FIFO for writing and know there is no reader?
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Keywords: O_NDELAY in open on a FIFO
Distribution: usa
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:28:15 GMT


I'm using FIFO as a rendezvouz point between two entirely different
systems.  My question is... is the there a way to specify O_NDELAY on
an open call? Alternatively is there a way to make sure there is a
reader on the other end of the FIFO?

Perl 4.019, SunOS 4.1.1, Sparc2.

Thanks,
-Brett
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From: ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: checking for interactive shell
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:39:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA

Quoting ced@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Charles Derykus) from comp.lang.perl:
>How do I perlize the following Bourne shell fragment? (I
>faq'ed fruitlessly)
>
>     case "$-" in                    # interactive ?
>        s) ....
>

Hmm... Provided that by "interactive" you mean have the standard
input connected to a tty, then the following should do it:

	if (-t) {		# Interactive ?
		...
	}

This is not exactly how I would define "interactive" though. I always
thought it was the -i flag from the shell which dictated whether the
shell was interactive or not. As far as I recall, the -s flag means
that when no more arguments are specified in the command line, then
the shell continues and prompts from stdin.

(A typical use is:

	remsh host sh -is

which gives you a "remote shell" without the burden of rlogin.)

This has little or no meaning for perl.
-- 
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Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
270 Storke Road, Suite #7                      / Tel +1 (805) 685-1006 \
Goleta, California 93117, USA                  \ Fax +1 (805) 685-6869 /
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Re: Flatfile db recommendations
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:09:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.185656.9983@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Operator) writes:
|> Has anyone invented a general purpose flatfile database in perl?  My boss 
|> doesn't need oracle.  He needs something that  will act as rolodex, biblio-
|> graphy, etc.
|> 
|> I've found a few in C but none quite fit our needs, and my C is not fluent
|> enough yet to casually adapt other people's semidocumented code.

A couple of db's you could look at are shql, an sql database system
built using standard utilities and q, a db implemented in awk in 
"The AWK programming language". As perl has the facilities of both sh
and awk it should be possible to rebuild both in perl.

-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: How to output % symbol in perl
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:53:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs

In article <1992Nov19.004813.16052@leland.Stanford.EDU> donghao@leland.Stanford.EDU (dong hao zhang) writes:
>Suppose we run a file like the following:
>#! /usr/pubsw/bin/perl
>printf STDOUT "\% A Latex Picture. \n";
>The output of the above file is:
>A Latex Picture. 
>instead of the desired: % A Latex Picture.
>Any idea why the backslash does not protect the % symbol from 
>being interpreted ? And how may I output the % symbol with a perl script?

Because, just like in C's printf() you should used %% to get a % on output.
Besides \ interpretation happens before printf see the string so by that time
the \ is already gone, just like the \n is already been turned into a real
newline char. So either use:

printf STDOUT "%% A Latex Picture. \n";

or

print STDOUT "% A Latex Picture. \n";

The latter is more effecient anyway.

--
Perl's Maternal Uncle
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: MSDOS Perl
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:40:04 GMT

g92k4260@ru.ac.za (Bryan Kilian) writes:

>This may be a FAQ and I apologise if it is, but is there a version of perl
>that will run on a PC/XT? I would love to be able to use my Perl programs on
>my PC but I'm not sure if it's possible.

Try  ftp.ee.umanitoba.ca:/pub/msdos/perl

-- budi
-- 
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Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Xref: sparky comp.lang.perl:7055 comp.lang.scheme:2608 comp.lang.tcl:1880
From: kend@data.rain.com (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re^2: Closures, Object-Oriented Equivalence, New version of Perl and TCL
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:56:35 GMT
Organization: Microtek DSD, Hillsboro, OR

thayer@cs.columbia.edu (Charles Thayer) writes:

>:)  Which brings up an interesting point in mit-scheme:

>(begin
>  (define a "moo")
>  (define (foo) 
>    (display a)
>    (define a "bar")
>    )
>  (foo))

>=> Unassigned variable a


This is because the above is equivalent to the following:

(letrec ( (a "moo")
          (foo 
            (lambda ()
	         (display a)
                 (define a "bar")) ;; <- ill-placed define
          )
        )
  (foo)
)

The semantics of "internal defines" is that of LETREC (parallel
assignment) and
*** definitions must occur before other expressions within a block ***

This difference between "internal defines" and "top-level defines"
has been a subject of debate for some time.  I am not taking a
position here, just trying to insure that the definition is
understood.

-Ken
From: ej@id.dth.dk (Erik Johansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: sorting problem
Date: 18 Nov 92 07:49:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science

dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:

>tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>: :
>:
>:     for (@data) { push(@idx, /^[^;]*;(.*)/) }
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>According to the book m// returnes true (1) or false (''). So I guess
>that the expression should really be

No, that is not (totally) correct. According to the manual the value returned
can also be a list of ($1, $2, $3...) :

             If used in a context that requires an array value, a pattern
             match returns an array consisting of the subexpressions matched
             by the parentheses in the pattern, i.e. ($1, $2, $3...).  It
             does NOT actually set $1, $2, etc. in this case, nor does it set
             $+, $`, $& or $'.  If the match fails, a null array is returned.
             If the match succeeds, but there were no parentheses, an array
             value of (1) is returned.

-- 
Erik Johansen / Institute for Computer Science / Danish Technical University
ej@id.dth.dk
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Subject: Re: explicit sub parameters - a proposal
X-Md4-Signature: a5b256844b88b2c9266101d06202f6af
Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands
	<1992Nov12.153941.18318@news.eng.convex.com>
	<mcook.721600211@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:51:19 GMT

In article <mcook.721600211@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com> mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook) writes:

>   I've come to learn that &foo(@abc) means &foo($abc[0], ...,
>   $abc[$#abc]).  I'm sure that changing the rules would break a lot
>   of existing code.

Only if you supply a function definition that indicates otherwise.
Default behaviour can still be as usual.

>   In the definition ``sub foo(@alpha, @beta, $gamma, %delta)'', perl
>   -w should warn about the parameters that follow @alpha, since the
>   declaration doesn't make sense.

Of course not! A sub like this one *REQUIRES* two arrays, a scalar and
an associative array. Anything else should be treated like an error.

	Johan
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Xref: sparky comp.lang.perl:7102 comp.lang.tcl:1922 comp.infosystems.gopher:1305
From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.tcl,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Is there a Perl/Wafe gopher client out there?
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:28:35 GMT
Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp.

Has anyone implemented a Perl gopher (or gopher+) client, or better
still one in Perl which uses the Wafe front end?

Mike
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Mike Stok                         |
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: guy@guy.b11.ingr.com (Guy Streeter)
Subject: Re: Perl ported to Intergraph?
Reply-To: guy@guy.b30.ingr.com
Organization: evidently not
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:23:08 GMT

woodruff@esseye.si.com (David Woodruff) writes:

>Can anyone tell me if Perl has ported to Intergraph machines?

perl is delivered with the current release of software for the
Intergraph machines.  There is no extra charge of it.  It is packaged
in the SYSTEMV product.

If you're a fairly capable C/System V programmer, especially if you
have experience porting to Intergraph from Sun or BSD, you can port it
yourself fairly easily.  There aren't very many tricky parts, and
Configure handles most of them automatically.

--
Guy Streeter

I labor to be brief -- and manage to be obscure.	-- Horace
From: bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe)
Subject: syscall arguments: Can't seem to get 'em to work
Summary: Having trouble returning value through pointer to integer argument
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Keywords: syscall int* argument
Distribution: usa
Date: 20 Nov 92 20:51:52 GMT

I am developing an interface to the advanced signal handling
facilities.

SunOS 4.1.1
SPARCstation 2 (sun4c)

This is perl, version 4.0

$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.6 $$Date: 91/11/11 16:38:45 $
Patch level: 19

Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 4.0 source kit.


The following program should print:

Sleeping...^C
00000002
SIGINT

but it prints:

Sleeping...^C
00000000
SIGINT

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I wrote the equivalent
program in C and it worked just fine.  It appears that the syscall is
not placing the sigmask in the string buffer.  I think it may be that
the system call has a library wrapper, but I can't seem to figure out
how to check.


#!/usr/bin/perl

$| = 1;
$SIG{'INT'} = 'sig_handler';
sub sig_handler { print "SIG$_[0]\n"; }

$sm = syscall(&SYS_sigblock,2);
print "Sleeping...";
sleep 5;	# press control-c during this sleep
print "\n";

$sigmask = pack("I",0);
syscall(&SYS_sigpending,$sigmask) == 0 || die $!;
printf("%08x\n",$sigmask);

syscall(&SYS_sigsetmask,$sm);

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrest Aldrich)
Subject: Re: Perl VERSION          
Organization: Vision Graphics
			  Dover, NH
			  USA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:37:08 GMT
Reply-To: morwyn.uucp!forrie@unhtel.unh.edu (Forrest Aldrich - SysAdmin)

From article <MERLYN.92Nov16094946@romulus.reed.edu>,
merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) has written:
+--------------------
| Maybe Larry will just finally remove goto's from Perl 5.0. That'll fix
| the lot of 'ya. :-)
+--------------------

	Speaking of which, it's been a long time since a patch has been 
	distributed for PERL... the current is 4.035.  When is the next
	patch due, or when is this version '5.0' scheduled to be available?

	Forrest

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
Subject: Re: Distinguishing stdout and stderr on a pipe
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:44:04 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

In <BxxI3B.G8p@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com> rray@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) writes:

>Is there a way to read from a pipe and capture both stdout and stderr, but
>still be able to distunguish them? I need to run a command while formatting
>returned data one way, and errors a different way.

>I have not been able to find any references to this in the Camel book or the
>USENIX tutorial.

This hit the newsgroup a long time ago.  It may be useful...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

>From comp.lang.perl Mon Mar 23 01:32:19 1992
From: stantz@sierra.corp.sgi.com (Mark Stantz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Perl program 'aub' crashes ULTRIX 4.2A
Keywords: perl,ultrix,crash,open files
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:02:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Nov16.153208.11855@dxcern.cern.ch> dietrich@dxcern.cern.ch 
  (Dietrich Wiegandt) writes:
>
>some users here use the Perl program 'aub' (assemble usenet binaries),
>Author stantz@sgi.com, to process image files received via USENET.
>Somehow this program seems to manage to corrupt the open file table in the
>user area so that ULTRIX crashes e.g. when the program is exiting and the
>files are being closed.  It apparently leaves a large number of files
>behind, because fsck on /tmp, where this program was supposed to create
>files, complains about unconnected files and other strange anomalies.  It
>looks as if the program is going beyond 64 open files before the crash
>occurs.
>>
>Some configuration details: DECserver 5900, Prestoserve, ULTRIX 4.2A,
>Perl 4.035, aub v2.0 and v2.0.5 behaving alike.
>
>Panics that we have seen sofar:
>        >gfs_lock: locking unrefed gnode
>        >km_free: bad addr
>        >unaligned access
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.

	It's not at all likely, despite appearances, that aub is responsible
for corrupting your disk.  The only disk operations aub does are opens, reads, 
writes, and closes.  It's possible that aub will use up a lot of file 
descriptors when trying to write to a disk that doesn't have enough space on 
it to hold all the data aub wants to write, but this should never cause the
file system to become corrupted.

	Your problem is more likely, in estimated order of probability:

	1) That your disk was already corrupt when aub started running,
	   and that its disk activity merely exacerbated an existing 
	   problem.
	2) A bug in your port of perl.
	3) A bug in Ultrix.

	-Mark
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: fuer@nessie.gud.siemens.co.at (Gerhard Fuernkranz)
Subject: perl5: Where?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:38:58 GMT
Organization: SIEMENS Austria Corp., A-1100 Wien, Gudrunstr. 11
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

In the news group comp.lang.tcl L.Wall mentioned `perl5'.
Does `perl5' already exist ?
Where can I get it ?

Thanks in advance

g.f.

Xref: sparky comp.lang.perl:7061 comp.lang.scheme:2610 comp.lang.tcl:1890
From: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: Closures, Object-Oriented Equivalence, New version of Perl and TCL
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:14:56
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Reply-To: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: montreux.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: thayer@cs.columbia.edu's message of Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:09:50 EST

In article <9211180509.AA04035@cs.columbia.edu> thayer@cs.columbia.edu (Charles Thayer) writes:

** > For example, in Scheme, a 'define' saves the current environment and
** > leaves the ability to reach the enclosing (dynamic) environment:
** 
**    That's not quite right.  DEFINE does not save the current environment.
**    It only binds a value to a variable.
** 
** I was not refering to the scheme meaning of `environment'.  I meant
** the entire set of visible bindings.  In scheme the `environment' only
** holds the most immediate visible bindings.

I think that the distinction that the responder wanted to make was
that DEFINE does no saving of any kind of environment at all. DEFINE
is just a binding construct.

** :)  Which brings up an interesting point in mit-scheme:
** 
** (begin
**   (define a "moo")
**   (define (foo) 
**     (display a)
**     (define a "bar")
**     )
**   (foo))
** 
** => Unassigned variable a

The code above is not legal Scheme. Internal defines must precede the
body of procedure being defined.

** Astute PERL users will notice that there are similar holes in the 
** implementation of the exact same thing with respect to the main
** package  :)  which I find ironic.

This is not an implementation hole in Scheme. It is a language design
issue. The above code (if legal) would have an ambiguity which the
Scheme designers chose to solve by making it illegal.

-Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: sandyb@world.std.com (Sandy Bendremer)
Subject: Need perl programmer for short job - low pay
Summary: Need a perl programmer for short job at low pay
Keywords: perl programmer
Organization: AnyWare Associates -- Boston, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:43:31 GMT

I need to hire someone to do a small amount of perl work for a small amount
of money.

My sincere apologies for posting here, but what better place . . . ??

A brief description of the requirements is as follows:

	* 15 to 25 hrs of "database related" perl programming
	* Only $300 to $500 budgeted for these routines
		[Sorry, I know that's near slave wages]
	* More work and better pay to follow
	* Reliable grad students and "moonlighters" are fine
	* Work at your site, Boston area preferred, e-mail a must
	* Knowledge of e-mail and RFC-822 a plus

If you are interested, qualified, and have the time, please send a brief
description of your situation and perl skills/experience.  At that point, I
will provide you with a detailed description of the actual routines
required.

Sorry our budget is so limited on this, but if you like to make a few extra 
bucks for the holidays or a car payment or two, this could work out well.

Thanks for your reply (and the perl folks' indulgence for the posting),

Sandy Bendremer
sandy@world.std.com

Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl