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# File Name: cisamperl-0.95 # Sender/Author/Poster: Mathias Koerber # Subject: CISAM integrated into perl thru usubs # # Latest version at # # Get it here # Text= ######################################################################

# File Name: Wish.example.open2
# File Size in BYTES: 2204
# Sender/Author/Poster: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
# Subject: Re: examples of WISH (X) programs
# Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994
#
# Here's my much shorter version of the FAQ program, using Tom's open2:
#

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Re: berkeley NDBM and perl

# File Name: btree.addition
# File Size in BYTES: 34232
# 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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FairCom Ctree additions to the Perl Programming Language

# File Name: ctree.4gl.additions
# File Size in BYTES: 180350
# 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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Re: read DBF3 files

# File Name: db3.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 5833
# 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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Re: How to produce DBM files from plain text?

# File Name: dbmtools.shar
# File Size in BYTES: 5288
# 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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Re: Using Perl in significant applications - experiences?

# File Name: faircom.dtree.pl.info
# File Size in BYTES: 3227
# 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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augmenting dbmopen to take read-only argument

# File Name: gdbm.read.patches.to.perl
# File Size in BYTES: 5408
# 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
# for our changes.  
#

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isqlperl 1.2

# File Name: isqlperl2.0.announce
# File Size in BYTES: 4235
# 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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a data compression toolkit in Perl

# 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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Re: What is oraperl ?

# File Name: oraperl.faq
# File Size in BYTES: 1246
# 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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[comp.lang.perl] Interactive interface to RCS and cdif

# File Name: rcs.interactive
# File Size in BYTES: 1875
# 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".
 # Click here if using Web to retrieve this tool
#

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simgrep.prl - Perl script:search SIMIBM.LST w/directory info

# File Name: simgrep.prl
# File Size in BYTES: 1317
# 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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Re: OraPerl & SybPerl SQL-generator

# File Name: sql.routines
# File Size in BYTES: 2093
# 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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Re: HELP with perl and SAS ?

# File Name: DBASE.and.SAS.files.parsing
# File Size in BYTES: 6004
# 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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Re: dBase Interface and Utilities (?)

# File Name: DBASE.conversion.tricks
# File Size in BYTES: 2040
# 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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DBperl. Database Independent API for Perl.

# File Name: DBperl.info
# File Size in BYTES: 21468
# 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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re: access to PERMANENT (w/code)

# File Name: GRASS.db.access
# File Size in BYTES: 4237
# 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
# File Size in BYTES: 92213
# 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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taro: extract/delete file from input tar stream

# File Name: TARO
# File Size in BYTES: 7123
# Sender/Author/Poster: utashiro
# Subject: taro: extract/delete file from input tar stream
# Archived: Apr 6 1993
#
#

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Convert Compact Cambridge Life Sciences to Refer

# File Name: cc2Refer.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 6471
# 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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Ck dbm return code

# File Name: dbm.ck.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 1782
# 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.
# This was the example:
#

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Merging perl dbm databases

# File Name: dbmmerge.pl
# File Size in BYTES: 2593
# Sender/Author/Poster: lhmaddox@bnr.ca (Ren Maddox)
# Subject: Re: Mergeing Perl dbm databases
# Archived: Oct 21 1993
#
# dbmmerge, v1.0, by Ren Maddox 
# v1.0, 1993 April 13     -- initial version
#

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Re: Read only dbm access for PERL?

# File Name: gnudbm.summary
# File Size in BYTES: 6067
# 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
# > a "read-only" 4th argument.  Below is what should be all the patches
#

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Another ascii file db

# File Name: newDB.pl.Z
# File Size in BYTES: 21003
# Archived: Apr 6 1993
#
# another ascii file db implementation
# Compressed binary file
#

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oraperl v1 p3 on os/2 2.0

# File Name: oparperl.for.OS2
# 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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oraperl: compressed parts + last patch

# Sub-Directory.

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Re: Another rdb/perl question

# File Name: rdb.info
# File Size in BYTES: 1712
# 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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sybperl.info

# File Name: sybperl.info
# File Size in BYTES: 1607
# 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
# appear soon.
#

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Part 1 of sybperl

# File Name: sybperl.part1.Z
# File Size in BYTES: 25506
# Archived: Apr 29 1993
#
# Part one of the shar - may not be latest version
# Compressed binary file
#

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Part 2 of sybperl

# File Name: sybperl.part2.Z
# File Size in BYTES: 14517
# Archived: Apr 29 1993
#
# part 2 of the shar - may not be the latest version
# Compressed binary file

#

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wish.pl: access the tcl/tk wish script

# 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
#  are read from wish through the WISH file handle.
#

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