> >Get the whole bookshelf on a CD thing O'Reilly sells. It has 6-7 books on
> >it, and it's searchable. It costs $70-80 - about the cost of 2 books.
Thanks to all who responded. I'll look into this and probably buy it.
Thanks for reminding me about the perldoc command as well.
b
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> But v.2 of that bookshelf CD does not include `Learning Perl' (it was
> replaced with `Perl for System Administration' ... prob'ly oughta buy
> that one.
Shame. It's quite a fun book.
If you've already learnt the basics (i.e. you know what scala
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>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote:
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>> I've got the first edition of "programming perl." the third edition is
>> out and perhaps I should buy it. Would you (or someone) suggest
>> "programming perl" or "learning p
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote:
> Yep, I'm a beginner, but you can't learn without trying things out. No
> offense at all was taken by you observing this, I appreciate the input and
> especially the caution.
>
> I've got the first edition of "programming perl." the third edition is
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote:
> I've got the first edition of "programming perl." the third edition is
> out and perhaps I should buy it. Would you (or someone) suggest
> "programming perl" or "learning perl"? Another one is "Cgi programming
> with perl"
Get the whole bookshelf o
> That's Perl's way of scoping a variable.
>
> Sounds like you should do some more studying before you put a script
> online, especially if this is a publicly accessible server. At your
> skill level (and please understand that I'm cautioning, not
> criticizing), your use of system() calls in
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>Can you (or anyone else) explain to me the command
> my $rc
That's Perl's way of scoping a variable.
Sounds like you should do some more studying before you put a script
online, especially if this is a publicly acces
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote:
> >
> > I'm guessing it's output to stderr you are still seeing. Try
> >
> > chdir("/path/to/latex/files") or die "chdir failed: $!\n";
> > my $rc = system("latex filename.tex > /dev/null 2>&1");
> >
>
> Beautiful!! It worked great.
>
> Can you (or anyon
> > > >Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory?
> >
> > So, what now happens is that all the output from running tex is displayed
> > on the webpage. How do I redirect the output from this to /dev/null ?
> > (So, I still want it to create a .dvi file, but I want all the tex
> > de
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote:
> > >Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory?
>
> So, what now happens is that all the output from running tex is displayed
> on the webpage. How do I redirect the output from this to /dev/null ?
> (So, I still want it to create a .dvi f
> >Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory?
>
> system("cd /path/to/latex/files; latex filename.tex");
>
> Quick and dirty.
Well, mostly good - at least tex is running (before it wouldn't even run).
Now, I need to run this from a cgi script on a webpage (basically, I'm
hoping
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>Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory?
system("cd /path/to/latex/files; latex filename.tex");
Quick and dirty.
Cheers ... -d
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I have a perl question (related to tex) that I can't figure out.
How can I run latex from a perl script?
I know that the following is a possibility:
system "latex filename.tex"
But, the problem is that I need to run latex in the given directory
because tex needs access to all the auxil
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