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From: asherman@fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman)
Subject: Re: Visual
Organization: I-Kinetics, 19 Bishop-Allen Dr., Cambridge, MA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:43:42 GMT


>>>>> pomeranz@irving.nas.nasa.gov (Hal R. Pomeranz) said:

pomeranz> djd@csg.cs.reading.ac.uk (David J Dawkins) writes:
> I don't know about anyone else, but I would sure like to know what 
> Larry, Tom and Randall *look* like :-}

pomeranz> After seeing Larry again at the last Bay LISA meeting, I am confirmed
pomeranz> in my opinion that Larry looks a lot like "Weird Al" with short,
pomeranz> straight hair.  My apologies to Larry, "Weird Al", and anybody else
pomeranz> who may be offended by this opinion.

Have you ever noticed how you never see Larry Wall and Weird Al in the
same place at the same time (same 4D coords for you extra-D'rs).

Hmm.... For that matter I've never seem Tom and Randal at ALL. I think
they're just perl scripts, written by his Wallness. ;-)


			-AJS

PS: We could always solve the problem by having Larry digitize
himself, singing "I Love Rocky Road" or "Eat It"...

PPS: On second thought, that could be a VERY BAD idea ;););)
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: dat91uni@ludat.lth.se (Urban Nilsson)
Subject: Recursive 'walk' into dir
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:18:46 GMT


Yo !

I'm a total newbie to perl (well i've tried it for a week or so) !
and would like to get some help in constructing a program that
takes away (deletes) all backupfiles at my account.

It wouild be nice if it did a recursive walk into the sub directories ...

Is this possible in perl ?!? if so please show me how !

Regards
/ UNI
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to format a string?
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:49:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.020958.17926@bnd2.bnd.oz.au> johnw@bnd2.bnd.oz.au (John Warburton) writes:
>Hello perl people,
>I would like to know if there is an easier way to format
>a string to be saved as a variable than this:
>format analysis =
>@<<<<    @<<<<   @<<<<  @<<<< @<<<<
>$total,$bottom,$middle,$top,$sptop
>.
>is how I would like the string to look.
>I extract the variables, but to put them into a string, I
>do the following:
>  open(STRING,"> /usr/tmp/string");
>  select(STRING);
>  $~='analysis';
>  write;
>  close(STRING);
>  select(STDOUT);
>  open(STRING,"/usr/tmp/string");
>  $sanalysis=<STRING>;
>  chop($sanalysis);
>  close(STRING);
>  unlink "/usr/tmp/string";
>just to get the variable $sanalysis.

Any reason you can't just say:

$sanalysis = sprintf("%-5d    %-5d   %-5d  %-5d %-5d",
			$total,$bottom,$middle,$top,$sptop);

(if any of those are strings use %-5s instead)
--
Perl's Maternal Uncle
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
From: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Visual
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:44:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Yep8yKa00WB_MnQ7AA
	<1992Oct8.163247.12618@news.eng.convex.com>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
> From the keyboard of djd@csg.cs.reading.ac.uk (David J Dawkins):
> :I don't know about anyone else, but I would sure like to know what 
> :Larry, Tom and Randall *look* like :-}
> :
> :You guys been digitised? 
> 
> Nope, but I've been digitized.

Come on, Tom, surely you're aware that it's us Americans who revised
certain spellings, not the brits.  Don't make fun of the poor guy.

But if you have a picture, post it!  (Maybe in
alt.binaries.pictures.utilities?)  I'd certainly post it on my office
wall.

--tod
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Perl passwd script for Sun's adjunct passwd files?
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:42:08 GMT


Has anyone modified the Perl passwd program (from chapter 6 of the book) to
work with Sun's adjunct (shadow) passwd files?  If so, I'd like to get
a copy of it.

If noone has done it and I make the changes myself, I'll post it or 
have it put in an anon ftp archive somewhere.


Thanks,

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
From: frankm@terminator.CNA.TEK.COM (Frank Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: timelocal() ??
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:53:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond,  OR.

In article <MERLYN.92Oct7150615@romulus.reed.edu> merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>In article <3723@master.CNA.TEK.COM> frankm@shadow.CNA.TEK.COM (Frank 'Scruff' Miller) writes:
>   Has any insane soul out there cooked up a flavor of timelocal() for
>   perl (i.e. Mike Cooper, perl-boy extrordinare)?  It'd be helpful to be 
>   able to go from a struct tm to time_t.
>
>You mean, *besides* the one in the 4.035 library?
>
>:-)
>

My goodness ... there it is (timelocal.pl)!  Wasn't in the Camel book .
So, has anyone written RPC support ... what about X calls? 
Uh...just kidding.

Earth-Pig
--
Frank 'Scruff' Miller      "A Perl script is correct if it is halfway readable
Tek CNA Division            and gets the job done before the boss fires you."
frankm@master.CNA.TEK.COM   -Larry Wall
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re:  Includes in MS-DOS perl?
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:05:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw8LHF.290
Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography

In article <1992Oct16.155909.441@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> rick@ssg.com writes:
>Also, the default location for libraries for the MS-DOS versions of perl
>seems to be \usr\local\lib - at least that worked for me.  Of course
>   -I \foo\bar\bletch
>will give an alternate location.

Of course, setting the environment variable PERLLIB will give an
alternate location, too.
From: adennie@sweetjane.hyperdesk.com (Andy Dennie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl on SunOS JLE? (Japanese Language Environment)
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:37:30 GMT
Reply-To: andy_d@hyperdesk.com
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: HyperDesk Corporation, Westboro, MA

Has anybody ever built perl for SunOS JLE (4.1.1)?  This is a SunOS that
has been modified to support multi-byte characters.  If so, did you have
to make any modifications to the code, or find that some features didn't
work when processing Kanji text or filenames?  I'd appreciate any tips
from anyone who has experience in this area.

Thanks.

--
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  o o|  2000 West Park Drive, Suite 300        Phone: (508) 366-5050 x109
  ---+  Westboro, MA 01581                     Fax:   (508) 898-3841
From: buzz@toxicavenger.bear.com (Buzz Moschetti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: how can i refer to a particular line in a file?
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:16:33 GMT
	<1992Sep28.145742.11347@ohm.york.ac.uk>
	<1992Sep28.171638.13625@rdg.dec.com> <Bw6JFr.F6p@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Reply-To: buzz@fsrg.bear.com (Buzz Moschetti)
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
In-reply-to: yli@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 15 Oct 92 20:26:14 GMT


>>>>> On 15 Oct 92 20:26:14 GMT, yli@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li) said:
>> Is there a easy way to do this in perl?

printf "this is line %d\n", __LINE__;
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: Recursive 'walk' into dir
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:17:26 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar):
:find . -name '*~' -print | perl -ne 'unlink chop;'

No, that's not legal perl.  You mean

    find /usr/lib/gemacs -print | perl -ne 'chop;unlink'

or simply

    find /usr/lib/gemacs -print | perl -lne unlink

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist

    s = (char*)(long)retval;                /* ouch */
        --Larry Wall in doio.c from the perl source code
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: question about perl patterns
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:47:05 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
Keywords: perl pattern matching
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of kumar@phage.cshl.org (Sanjay Kumar at Cold Spring Harbor Lab):
:Is there an easy way to find the position of a regular expression
:match in a string?  I would like to do the equivalent of the
:index function, but use regular expressions rather than substrings.

You can't do 

    index($str, /pattern/);

although I've seen people try.  :-(

Use $`, $&, and $':

    if (/pattern) {
	($pre, $match, $post) = ( $`, $&, $' );
    } 

and now you can take the length($pre) to figure out the
numeric position.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
		--Vice President Dan Quayle during the 
                   VP debate in Omaha, Nebraska (10/88)
From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: reset woes?
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:27:42 GMT
Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division

Sledgehammer though it may be, "reset" still has uses.

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.large
From: ras@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Shaw)
Subject: Utility to update "group", "passwd" files, (in spite of) NIS
Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth, RI
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:27:08 GMT

A while ago I was looking in here for an updated version of
Larry Wall's "passwd" program in Perl that dealt with Yellow Pages,
as well as a program that would allow a user to add/delete members
from his/her own group, etc.  I got one response, and looked at 
what they had (I believe it was called "gred", I forget now),
but it worked by allowing client systems to connect to a socket,
and allowed both group and passwd changes based on that.

As this didn't fit into my environment, (and I didn't trust the
security of these socket connections), I wrote another version of it.
I took Larry Wall's passwd program, ripped the back-end out of it,
and used a seperate program for updating the actual passwd and group
databases, either locally, or across a network to the Yellow Pages
source machine.  (It doesn't actually use the NIS update facilities,
as they seemed to vary in capability between the Suns, SGIs, VAX, HP,
and Pyramid that we have here).  It also provides the capability to
keep passwd databases in sync between NIS and non-NIS systems, which
is pretty handy here.

As far as "group" is concerned, the program allows a user to add
another user (or delete a user) to/from any group that they are in,
(unless it's a low-numbered group, in which case only "root" can do it).
I've always been amazed that groups were not used more in large UNIX
installations, especially with large software projects over time...
Along with that, a Perl version of "finger", "chfn", "chsh" and "chhome"
are included, just for completeness.

Now, with npasswd, passwd+, and various others out there, is there
sufficient interest in posting it to alt.sources?  (We're not on the 
Internet, sorry...)

Ralph Shaw			<ras@quahog.ssd.ray.com>
Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell)
Subject: Something I couldn't figure out how to do with associative arrays
Organization: RMJ Securities Corp.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:50:08 GMT

I needed to produce a report with three sets of data. All the sets were of
the form date, value (e.g. 19921015 1234.56). So like a good perl programmer
I loaded up three associative arrays. But then I found out they wanted the
report to look like this (any one of the sets can be of any length):

       DATA 1	 	   DATA 2	       DATA 3
   DATE     VALUE      DATE     VALUE	    DATE     VALUE
   ----	    -----      ----     -----	    ----     -----
  date1-1  value1-1   date2-1  value2-1    date3-1  value3-1
  date1-2  value1-2   date2-2  value2-2    date3-2  value3-2
  		      date2-3  value2-3
  		      date2-4  value2-4

Since the data was in associative arrays I couldn't figure out out to print it
like that. I changed my program to use six regular arrays, so I could walk them
at the same time. 

Is there a way I could have produced the report as requested while still using
associative arrays?
-- 
Larry Martell                  "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one, 
212-668-9478		        but nobody wants to look at the other guys"
uunet!st-andy!larry
From: aahz@hal.COM (Tom Wylie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: patches
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:47:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: perv.hal.com


Where does one find patches to level 35?  Jpl-devvax doesn't have
anything past level 19.  Ohio-state is missing 20 and 25-30.  Uunet
doesn't have individual patches at all, that I can find.  Since I'm
working with modified perl source, just grabbing the source code
for level 35 and attempting to remix would be aggravating.

Answers should probably be emailed, but I'm curious as to whether
the Perl gurus know that these patches aren't anywhere that someone
working off just the camel book (like me) knows to look.


Tom Wylie
aahz@hal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
Subject: Re: Is there a better way to format a string?
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, Massachusetts
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:25:42 GMT

johnw@bnd2.bnd.oz.au (John Warburton) writes:

>Hello perl people,

>I would like to know if there is an easier way to format
>a string to be saved as a variable than this:

>format analysis =
>@<<<<    @<<<<   @<<<<  @<<<< @<<<<
>$total,$bottom,$middle,$top,$sptop
>.

>is how I would like the string to look.
>I extract the variables, but to put them into a string, I
>do the following:

>  open(STRING,"> /usr/tmp/string");
>  select(STRING);
>  $~='analysis';
>  write;
>  close(STRING);
>  select(STDOUT);
>  open(STRING,"/usr/tmp/string");
>  $sanalysis=<STRING>;
>  chop($sanalysis);
>  close(STRING);
>  unlink "/usr/tmp/string";

>just to get the variable $sanalysis.

>This seems a bit over the top to me, but I can't seem to 
>think of a better way. Can anyone help?

It looks like you could get by with sprintf.

  $sanalysis = sprintf("%-5s    %-5s   %-5s  %-5s %-5s\n",
                       $total, $bottom, $middle, $top, $sptop);

Michael.
From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
Subject: [pipes] Piping a device
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 21:06:32 GMT
Distribution: usa


This perhaps is more philosophical than it is Perl itself, but I'd
rather keep this out of C. I am trying to gen a script which will take
an input coming to a terminal and manipulate it, quite possibly as a
pipe, and generate output back to the caller.

Effectively, the first example would be if a write message came into
a particular terminal, that would auto-return a message saying
something like "No one is home right now"

I've though three tee, through various ST{out,in,err} file handles,
through duping filehandles on the /dev/tty, but I cannot come up with
the correct combination. Anyone have fresher ideas?

Many thanx :) I will summarize.

--Ace
-- 


John Stewart (Ace)
CSS/DSS/Security/Postmaster
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.lang.tcl
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: OOP?  Dynamic Loading of C code and packages for perl
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:38:43 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of thayer@cs.columbia.edu (Charles Thayer):

:sub foo {
:  local($a,$b,$c)=@_;
:  print "$c\n";
:  return ["$a $b"];
:}

Current thinking holds that ["$a $b"] would be a pointer to 
a list containing one element, the string "$a $b", like

    \( "$a $b" )
or using the function=call syntax

    ref ("$a $b")

Although I get nervous about the function-call syntax.

Let's see now, are you talking about 

    &{$a}($b);

That is, call the function whose name is in $a with the argument $b?
How can you tell the name?

:the '["$a $b"]' would call a user-written c-subroutine (see your usub
:dir of the perl source.)  

Generalizing the dbm access routines so you could get at arbitrary 
functions through associative arrays references is someone related to this.

:in C and take and return a string.  And [["$a $b baz"] `ypmatch foo bar`]
:would do what you'd expect too.

You mean this:

    &{&{$a}($b,baz)}(`ypmatch foo bar`);

:it's syntactic sugar that makes perl
:look more like smalltalk.  

People often want Perl to look more like other languages than Perl. :-)

:I would like to see tcl used as a front-end to the suggested '[]'
:syntax.  The reason is that tcl is a very reasonable, small, embedded
:command language, which could be easily put in any C program.  There
:are already tcl/sybase/curses/xwindows/motif/oracle/snmp/...
:combinations out there.  If these tools were all talking to each other
:with the tcl-send command I could stop worrying about which toolchest
:to use when tackling something, since they would already work
:together.

I'm don't see what using tcl instead of a Perl version of these
things would buy you.  

:-Someone's already written a dld based dynamic object loader in tcl.
:-There are versions of tcl that already dynamically load missing
:symbols.

And someone -- Kevin Stock in 9210080916.AA19163@isfrance.encore.fr> --
last week posted an way to dynamic load C functions from perl.

:-Someone's already written a sybased tcl.

And a sybased (etc.) perl.

:-Tcl could implement struct for perl.

Struct is an interesting problem, and I'm certainly not entirely
satisfied with the c2ph approach, but I don't see why that requires
a hybrid language, which is what I hear you asking for.

:-We could get rid of some of the features already in perl.

I don't think you'll make a lot of friends by removing features,
since most have their champions.  Did you have any candidates for 
deletion?

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist


		Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
From: jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Why I am glad I know perl
Date: 8 Oct 1992 22:33:34 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.cs.utexas.edu

In article <9210080959.AA00273@salmon.demon.co.uk> neil@salmon.demon.co.uk ("Neil S. Briscoe") writes:
[...]
>Unless, of course, they've remembered to run zsh.  Whenever you type
>"rm *" in zsh it asks you if you really meant to do that regardless of
>any aliases for rm you may have set up.
>
>Emacs, Zsh and Perl.  Tools for life!
>
>Regards
>Neil
[... sig trimmed ...]

Not only that, but, what I always do, before doing any rm with a wildcard,
is hit the tab key, and let zsh complete the list of filenames for me.
It lets me see what the glob will turn out to be before I delete it.

Let me tell you, it's saved my butt many a time.

And I reiterate:
  "Emacs, Zsh, and Perl.  Tools for life!"




-- 
-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
jeff grills              | "Sometimes i see myself so clearly, because I
jefftep@cs.utexas.edu    |   see nothing at all.  This feeling of emptiness
Undergrad Lab, UT Austin |   flees my soul, leaving even less behind."  -me
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Visual
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:54:09 GMT

In article <djd.718533012@reading> djd@csg.cs.reading.ac.uk (David J Dawkins) writes:
>I don't know about anyone else, but I would sure like to know what 
>Larry, Tom and Randall *look* like :-}

I saw Larry at the BALISA meeting last month, where he gave a talk on perl
to a packed room.  At first I thought he didn't look like what Larry Wall
ought to look like, but after half an hour I decided that he looked and
acted *exactly* the way Larry Wall ought to look and act. 

-- 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jack Hamilton   jfh@netcom.com   P. O. Box 281107   SF, CA   94128-1107
From: fair@apple.com (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: A Constant Puzzlement
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:02:47 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Operations, Apple Computer, Inc.

I'm trying to do a little optimization of a large (~3000 lines) perl
script. I have a some constants that are referenced in quite a few
places that I had set up originally as variables (e.g. $CRLF).
However, I noticed that h2ph sets everything up as subroutines for
constants (e.g. sub EX_OK { 0; }).

"Hmm," I thought, "I wonder which is really faster? A test! Yes, I'll
try them both and see which is faster." (I'm a pretty suspicious
character).

I came out with some odd results: subroutine reference of constants is
almost twice as expensive in CPU consumed than simple variable
reference. This is in essence the test script:

sub subconst { 1; }
$varconst = 1;

for($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i ++) {
	$result = $varconst;
}

I ran it a few times like this, and a few times referencing the
subroutine constant, and got the results I described above.

Why does h2ph set constants up as subroutines, then?

	curious,

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl 4.035 under Solaris 2.0 on Sparc-1 (4/60)
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:26:45 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab


I am trying to build Perl 4.035 under Solaris 2.0. The
executable I get segmentation faults on trivial things like:

	foreach $foo (<*>) {
	  print "$foo\n";
	}

Yet on some things it works well (lists). I can replace the
glob above and it runs fine:

	@list = ("mumble","baz","gip");
	foreach $foo (@list) {
	  print "$foo\n";
	}

If you have build Perl 4.035 successfully on Solaris 2.0 on a Sparc
1, please send me your config.sh file from your Perl source directory.

	Stuart
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: how does one tar to stdout? and related?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:32:10 GMT

Joseph Alotta writes
[munch]
> tar -xvf /dev/rst0  mybigfile | grep "1000" | filter.pl
> 
> but tar always writes to disk directly.  how can i fake  
it out?
> 
gnutar +help
..
-O, +to-stdout          extract files to standard output
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl