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Re: What is the problem with Finger?


Article: 7617 of alt.hackers
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: What is the problem with Finger?
Message-ID: 1995Apr7.153220.25099@netlabs.com
Organization: NetLabs, Inc., Los Altos, California.
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:32:20 GMT
Approved: me
Lines: 15
Status: RO

In article <3l8dkd$ipb@raffles.technet.sg>,
James Seng <jseng@technet.sg> wrote:
: #!/usr/bin/perl
: ($command,$url,$http) = split(/\s/,<STDIN>);
: open(HTML, "lynx $url|"); while (<HTML>) { print; }
: close (HTML);
:
: Don't you love perl 8)

It's sort of a love/hate relationship.

ObHack: Perl.

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com



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