Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE!root From: andreas.koenig@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce Subject: New Module List Posted Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 29 Mar 1997 08:09:45 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Lines: 143 Approved: koenig@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de Distribution: world Expires: 04/19/97 10:09:42 Message-ID: <5hiio9$aih$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: Reply-To: andreas.koenig@franz.ww.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Koenig) NNTP-Posting-Host: franz.ww.tu-berlin.de Keywords: FAQ, Perl, Module, Software, Reuse, Development, Free Originator: root@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE Last night I posted a new revision (2.40) of the Perl 5 Module List to comp.lang.perl.modules. See the header of this posting for a reference. The HTML version is uploaded to CPAN as modules/00modlist.long.html. Try or your nearest CPAN site. As usual, comments, corrections and suggestions are more than welcome. Please don't hesitate, mail them to modules@perl.com. Thank you, andreas Recent Changes in the modules database -------------------------------------- 2) Perl Core Modules, Perl Language Extensions and Documentation Tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- constant adpf Define compile-time constants PHOENIX + 4) Operating System Interfaces ------------------------------ MSDOS:: ::Anarchie cdpO Interface to Anarchie with AppleEvents CNANDOR + 5) Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess Communication --------------------------------------------------------------------- Net:: ::LDAP adpO Interface to LDAP Protocol (RFC1777) PLDAP + ::Telnet adpO Interact with TELNET port or other TCP ports JROGERS ! 6) Data Types and Data Type Utilities (see also Database Interfaces) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit:: ::ShiftReg Rdcf Rotate/shift registers (all C integer types) STBEY + ::Vector RdcO Arbitrary length bit vectors (base class) STBEY + Date:: ::Convert cdpO Conversion between Gregorian, Hebrew, more? MORTY + Math:: ::Fraction adpO Fraction Manipulation KEVINA + PDL:: ::NetCDF adcr Reads/Writes NetCDF files from/to PDL objs DHUNT + 7) Database Interfaces (see also Data Types) -------------------------------------------- CDB_File adc Tie to CDB (Bernstein's constant DB) files TIMPX ! 8) User Interfaces (Character and Graphical) -------------------------------------------- PerlMenu Mdpf Curses-based menu and template system SKUNZ + Qt ad+O Interface to the Qt toolkit AWIN ! Tk:: ::Getopt adpO User configuration interface to Getopt::Long SREZIC + X11:: ::Fvwm adcO interface to the FVWM window manager API RJRAY ! ::XEvent bdcO provides perl OO acess to XEvent structures MARTINB + ::XFontStruct bdcO provides perl OO access to XFontStruct MARTINB + ::Xforms bdcO provides the binding to the xforms library MARTINB + Xforms bdcO See X11::Xforms; namespace will move to X11 MARTINB + 11) Text Processing, Parsing and Searching ------------------------------------------ Font:: ::TFM adpO Read info from TeX font metric files JANPAZ + TeX:: ::DVI adpO Methods for writing DVI (Device INdependent) JANPAZ + ::Hyphen adpO Hyphenate words using TeX's patterns JANPAZ + Text:: ::Vpp adpO Versatile text pre-processor DDUMONT + 15) World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME etc (see Text Processing) ------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML:: ::Embperl bdcf Embed Perl in HTML GRICHTER + ::Stream RdpO HTML output stream ERYQ ! MIME:: ::Lite adpO Single module for composing simple MIME msgs ERYQ ! ::Words cdpf Encode/decode RFC1522-escaped header strings ERYQ + Netscape:: ::Cache bdpO Access Netscape cache files SREZIC + 17) Archiving, Compression and Conversion ----------------------------------------- Convert:: ::BER adpO Class for encoding/decoding BER messages GBARR + ::BinHex cdpO Convert to/from RFC1741 HQX7 (Mac BinHex) ERYQ + 18) Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing and Graphing ---------------------------------------------------------------- Image:: ::Magick RdcO Read, query, transform, and write images JCRISTY + 21) File Handle, Directory Handle and Input/Output Stream Utilities ------------------------------------------------------------------- IO:: ::Scalar idpO An I/O handle on a scalar ERYQ + ::ScalarArray idpO An I/O handle on a ref to array of scalars ERYQ + ::WrapHandle idpO Wrap old-style FHs in IO::-like interface ERYQ + 23) Miscellaneous Modules ------------------------- Bundle i Namespace reserved for modules collections ANDK + Recent Changes in the users database ------------------------------------ ! 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