Subj : Anyone here?
To   : Barry Blackford
From : Jame Clay
Date : Sun Aug 18 2002 11:08 pm

Barry,

 RJ>> .... I'm reading everything I can find on perl and
 RJ>> understanding more than I did before..

 BB> That sounds like you are over the summit of the learning curve Russ, 
 BB> well done!

   I don't know that I'm as far along the curve as Russ, but I'm certainly 
getting along it...<g>   I needed to get my normal mailer for this node 
(1:120/544) set back up again, after I lost the boot drive in the old system.   
As you know, there are rather a large number of WWB echos & I really wasn't too 
enthusiastic about creating the hpt config file (part of the husky project) for 
the WWB echos by hand but I needed to get them set up asap...
   But I remembered that I already had a subroutine in a script I'd written 
that could read in something like a backbone.ww file, & that printing to a file 
in Perl is pretty easy...  So, in 15-20 minutes I had the base config file 
ready to go;  it still needed some tweaking, like some node connections added, 
but otherwise it was ready for use.  

   Now, for just a few echos I wouldn't have done something like that (Nor 
needed to...);  I would have just copied them in to the config file & edited as 
neccessary.   But for 417 echos, including their descriptions;  well, this is 
why I decided to learn Perl, being able to do such things...



Jame

   

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