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- From: pete@egh-qc.uucp (Pete Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Camel Book for 5.xxx hardback?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.123132.12862@egh-qc.uucp>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 12:31:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.162151.1847@meiko.com> <sherman.715286966@foster> <1992Sep3.014601.28583@news.Hawaii.Edu> <ASHERMAN.92Sep4132155@laser.fmrco.com>
- Organization: Surgical Materials Testing Lab (SMTL)
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- > sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
- > >Actually, the Perl book on CD-ROM would be really handy!!! I
-
- >Todd> O'Reilly released a Hypercard version of "UNIX in a Nutshell"
- >Todd> about four or five years ago. I used it quite a bit and found it
- >Todd> useful and easy to use. .......
-
- >I'd like to see them just release it as PostScript(tm) on a CDROM.
- >That way it's machine independant, and I think most people can get at
- >a PostScript(tm) previewer, or just print it out (they'd have to write
- >up the license such that people were allowed to print it out for their
- >own use, of course.
-
- Well, it'd look nice on your screen, but the whole point of something
- like the perl book on CD would be so that you could use grep, awk, or
- some such utility (only joking here guys ;-) ) to search for
- the types of things you are interested in. So you could find the
- paragraph which describes the retab function by searching for
- paragraphs with indent and tab.
-
- I'd prefer raw text. Then when you find something your interested in
- you could cut it out and paste into your own code (I know that you can
- get all the examples from the net, but it's not the same - browsing
- the text on-line means you can see the code in context).
-
- Pete
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- Pete Phillips, Surgical Materials Testing Lab, Bridgend, S. Wales.
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