spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

The fifth chapter covers management, and the examples show how to use ping and traceroute in a Perl script. It also shows how to used SNMP, with an example that monitors uptimes from a group of ...

Mastering Perl/Tk is divided into two distinct sections. The first half of the book (chapters 1-13) covers the same material found in Learning Perl/Tk; in fact, several of the examples and text ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer ...

My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them have cygwin installed on their PCs. cygwin has a dir.exe and my Perl programs attempt to use this when I call dir from within my program.