Subj : Perl-JAM-0.1
To   : Johan Billing
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 01:51 pm

Hey Johan!

Feb 17 22:25 05, Johan Billing wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> Thanks. :-)

You are most welcome!  From what little I saw I must say that it looked 
impressive.  It appeared that much thought and work went into it.  Also the 
demo scripts were a very nice touch and I'll definetly play with them soon.

 JB> Is is actually quite nice to be able to access the messagebase with 
 JB> Perl. I just wrote a small program that downloads Usenet messages 
 JB> using Net::NNTP and stores them in a JAM messagebase, it would have 
 JB> been a lot more work to do it in C or most other languages. I love 
 JB> Perl, I just wish I hadn't waited until now to learn it. :-)

I hear ya there!  I feel exactly the same about Linux.  I wish I had it way 
back when instead of bothering at all with DOS.  That all turned out to be a 
waste of time.  Oh well, live and learn eh?

 MK>> -rw-r--r--  1 tothings users   7188 Feb 17 07:24 Perl-JAM-0.1.tar.gz
 MK>> -rw-r--r--  1 tothings users  11301 Feb 17 06:49 Perl-JAM-0.1.zip

 JB> I've got to admit that the main reason why I am still using zip is 
 JB> that I am too lazy to learn the syntax of tar. :-)

It was easy and definetly worthwhile as you can clearly see above.  All I did 
was to create a directory call Perl-JAM-0.1, unzip the zipfile there, cd down a 
level, and then do a "tar czvf Perl-JAM-0.1.tar.gz Perl-JAM-0.1", which created 
the archive and stored all the files in the Perl-JAM-0.1 directory maintaining 
it as the directory to create and put the unarchived files into.  The switches 
are c=create, z=gzip, v=verbose, f=archive.  Simple and elegant, no?

If bzip is preferred then the switches would be "cjvf" and it would result in a 
greater compressed archive but then it would be slower to {un,}archive.

Anyhow, looking very good and Linux friendly.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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