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# Sender/Author/Poster: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
# Subject: Re: examples of WISH (X) programs
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
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# Here's my much shorter version of the FAQ program, using Tom's open2:
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# Sender/Author/Poster: conover@netcom.com (John Conover)
# Subject: Re: berkeley NDBM and perl
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# Attached are the sources that add btree file indexing to the Perl
# programming language.
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# Sender/Author/Poster: conover@netcom.com (John Conover)
# Subject: FairCom Ctree additions to the Perl Programming Language
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# Attached are the sources that add FairCom Ctree file indexing to the
# Perl programming language. 
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# Sender/Author/Poster: ntools1@be.oracle.com (student1)
# Subject: Re: read DBF3 files
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# convert db3-file to a flatfile (ascii-file with records consisting
# of 1 line, and fields separated by a fieldseparator (tab) character)
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# Sender/Author/Poster: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
# Subject: Re: How to produce DBM files from plain text?
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# Since you mention perl writing such a script wouldn't be that
# difficult.  The scripts at the end provide some minimal functionality
# to manipulate dbm files with perl.
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# Sender/Author/Poster: watson@carssdf.uucp (John Watson)
# Subject: Re: Using Perl in significant applications - experiences?
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# I write all (98%) of my applications in perl.  For the last two or three
# years I have done almost everything in perl.  I use perl linked to DTREE
# by FairCom, an ISAM file & Screen Manager.  
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# File Name: gdbm.read.patches.to.perl
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# Sender/Author/Poster: aahz@hal.COM (Tom Wylie)
# Subject: augmenting dbmopen to take read-only argument
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#

# Ok, a week or two ago I posted saying we'd augmented dbmopen to take
# a "read-only" 4th argument.  Below is what should be all the patches
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# Sender/Author/Poster: bill@tardis.co.uk (William Hails)
# Subject: isqlperl 1.2
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# I've just released version 1.2 of isqlperl.  It's available by
# anonymous ftp from:
#  ftp.demon.co.uk 
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# File Name: izpack.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 9990
# Sender/Author/Poster: "Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk" 
# Subject: a data compression toolkit in Perl
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# some time ago I talked to someone explaining Perl's advantages.
# I stressed the fact that Perl allows you to handle binary data easily.
# "So you can write, say, a compressor in Perl? " - "Yeah."
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# Sender/Author/Poster: timbo@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce)
# Subject: Re: What is oraperl ?
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# From the file ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/perl/db/oraperl/FAQ:
# Click here if using Web for the Latest version
#         Frequently Asked Questions for Oraperl
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# File Name: rcs.interactive
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# Sender/Author/Poster: pfeifer@woodstock.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ulrich Pfeifer)
# Subject: [comp.lang.perl] Interactive interface to RCS and cdif
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# I have written some stuff to compare and merge interactively files in
# stuff is stolen) but can replaced by "diff".
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Name=simgrep.prl - Perl script:search SIMIBM.LST w/directory info
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# File Name: simgrep.prl
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# Sender/Author/Poster: afzal@divsun.unige.ch (Afzal Ballim)
# Subject: simgrep.prl - Perl script:search SIMIBM.LST w/directory info
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# I have uploaded to the SimTel Software Repository (available by anonymous
# ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors):
# pub/msdos/filedocs/
# 

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# Sender/Author/Poster: jstander@ml.csiro.au (Jeff Stander)
# Subject: Re: OraPerl & SybPerl SQL-generator
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# >Ora/SybPerl that would auto-gen SQL statements of different kinds.
# I have some routines that I've written that might
# be of some use.  You can find them as part of the
# compressed archives for xsql in the following location:
# Click here if using Web
# 	host:	ftp.ml.csiro.au
# 	IP:	192.67.12.100
# 	dir:	/pub/jstander/xsql
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# Sender/Author/Poster: polleke@triton.lew.kuleuven.ac.be (Paul Bijnens)
# Subject: Re: HELP with perl and SAS ?
# Archived: Sep 27 1993
#
# convert db3-file to a flatfile (ascii-file with records consisting
# of 1 line, and fields separated by a fieldseparator (tab) character)
# And if you need a  perl package to read dbf files (I hope you mean
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# Sender/Author/Poster: lipka@lip.hanse.de (Michael Lipka)
# Subject: Re: dBase Interface and Utilities (?)
# Archived: Sep 27 1993
#
#    I have large dbf (dBase III) files that I need to cut up according to
#    a variety of criteria.  Could anyone point me to a perl package that can
#    handle this format?
# No, but it's absolutly simple.
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# File Name: DBperl.info
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# Sender/Author/Poster: timbo@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce)
# Subject: DBperl. Database Independent API for Perl.
# Archived: Aug 14 1993
#
# ARCHIVISTS NOTE:  This is probably not the most recent version.
#
# The following two messages contain Section 1 and Section 2 of the current
# draft DBperl API Specification.
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# File Name: GRASS.db.access
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# Sender/Author/Poster: greg@towhee.cor2.epa.gov (Greg Koerper)
# Subject: re: access to PERMANENT (w/code)
# Archived: Aug 20 1993
#
# written to attach ERL-C GRASS Database to new GRASS user's database
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# File Name: RDB.tar.Z
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# Archived: Nov 26 1992
#
Archivists Note: 
This file has been removed.  At the authors request.

I just noticed that the RDB version in scripts/dbase is several years out of
date.  There's a current version on the canonical site:
ftp://rand.org/pub/RDB/hobbs/

Maybe the archive should be replaced with a pointer to the canonical
site.

Regards,
- -- 
Christoph Badura
O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag
------- end -------
-- 
$jhi++;
# Jarkko Hietaniemi  
# Lost interest?  It's so bad I've lost apathy.

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# File Name: TARO
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# Sender/Author/Poster: utashiro
# Subject: taro: extract/delete file from input tar stream
# Archived: Apr 6 1993
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# Sender/Author/Poster: dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
# Subject: Compact Cambridge LSC -> Refer converter
# Archived: Jun 7 1993
#
# I'm enclosing a Perl script which converts Compact Cambridge Life Sciences
# references to Refer. It does a slightly better job than the appropriate
# option of PreferRefer (as of 1.3.beta4), mainly wrt capitalization. The
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# Sender/Author/Poster: friedman@bnr.ca (Barry Friedman)
# Subject: Re: No way to check dbm return code?
# Archived: May 24 1993
#
# So the workaround that is needed is either a fix to the dbm handler in
# perl to make it conform to the eval error trapping or something I've
# overlooked.
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# Sender/Author/Poster: lhmaddox@bnr.ca (Ren Maddox)
# Subject: Re: Mergeing Perl dbm databases
# Archived: Oct 21 1993
#
# dbmmerge, v1.0, by Ren Maddox 
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# Sender/Author/Poster: sunds@.asictest.sc.ti.com (David M. Sundstrom, EC1 F5 , 997-5380, DMSX)
# Subject: Re: Read only dbm access for PERL?
# Archived: Sep 2 1993
#
# > Ok, a week or two ago I posted saying we'd augmented dbmopen to take
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# Archived: Apr 6 1993
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# another ascii file db implementation
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# File Size in BYTES: 1187
# Sender/Author/Poster: fw@world.std.com (forrest d whitcher)
# Subject: oraperl v1 p3 on os/2 2.0
# Archived: Aug 18 1993
#
# I have _finaly_ succeeded in building oraperl (v1 patch 3) for os/2 (2.x). 
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# File Name: rdb.info
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# Sender/Author/Poster: Walt Hobbs 
# Subject: Re: Another rdb/perl question 
# Archived: Jul 28 1993
#
# I'll send you the advanced (not yet posted) version if it might help if you
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# File Name: sybperl.info
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# Sender/Author/Poster: mpeppler@itf.ch (Michael Peppler)
# Subject: Sybperl patch 6 released
# Archived: Apr 27 1993
#

# Sybperl patch 6 has been submitted to comp.sources.misc and should
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# Archived: Apr 29 1993
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# Archived: Apr 29 1993
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# File Name: wish.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 6026
# Sender/Author/Poster: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
# Subject: Accessing wish from perl
# Archived: May 23 1993
#
#  This library provides a couple of subroutines for easy access
#  Commands are sent to wish through the 'wish' subroutine and
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