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I installed perl-5.8.0 with -Dprefix=/usr, but @INC shows everything in
/usr/local. How do I fix that?
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  KARICO Business Services

I am currently working on an application which is supposed to retrieve
some information from a website. I form a query, where I place the
street address to get information on. The final part of the URL looks
as follows:

Good afternoon,
    I've been working on a tool for automating log rotations and database
dumps for MySQL. This started during system administration discussions
in a development group I was in at MGH quite a while ago, and a few

All the packets that are inbound to my serial port start with 0x02 and
end with 0x03. How do I read the entire packet into a scalar?
Right now, using $loc = $ob->read(255) I can only get up to 16 bytes,
and sometimes I don't get the full 16 bytes.

I'm currently attepting to install Spamassassin on my PC but have hit
a problem installing two modules DB_File-1.810 and Time-HiRes-1.65.
Other files that I've downloaded install fine (e.g. Net-DNS and
IP-Country)but when I type NMAKE (after PERL MAKEFILE.PL) I get the

Windows 2000(SP4) ActivePerl 5.8.3
I found this escapade rather confusing, I'm warning you now.
I cannot install this Win32-PerfMon module, I tried using ppm, and
giving a shot at the manual install but I do not have what it takes,

I would like to know if GD::Graph can be used to create a "Stock Chart".
This is a series of lines with three data points representing the
high/low/close. Perhaps there is a more correct name for this type of chart,
but it is referred to this in MS Excel.  My application is NOT ...

I tried searching for this answer but have not been able to find it.
I'm running ActiveState Perl  5.8.3.809 on Windows 2000. I installed
DBI and DBD-mysql:
ppm> install DBI

as everyone knows, sockets are bi-directional so they can be read from
and written to. Pushing this idea a bit further, it becomes obvious that
one could stuff two filehandles (one for read- and another one for
write-access) into one:

I just uploaded my first perl module, Logfile::Access. Makes parsing
access logs very easy.
http://cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DT/DTIBERIO/Logfile-Access-1.23.tar.gz

I am developing a new perl module that uses constants with regular
expressions. What is the proper way to offer this file?
For example, my perl file is compromised of constants such as the
following:

perhaps this is the proper place i shoudl ask this:
i already do email with "sendmail"  but obviously there are more powerful
ones.  i was hoping that people here might have an overwhelmingly positive
view of one or two.   my needs are mostly simple.  being able to read, and

I am writing a module that uses the Mail::Sender module to send
messages.
The module works correctly when called from a test perl script, but if
I try to call it from the command line, using "perl remedyMail.pm", I

I have a script that periodically copies a number of files from /proc to
a zipped file using this library.  It's been working fine for over a
year and I've recently encountered a corrupted file.  My first question
has to do with how the thing got corrupted in the first place and ...

Sorry for the repost, I hit Send too soon.
I am using HTML::TreeBuilder to futz with some HTML, and I need to
modify the text of some of the HTML::Elements. But I use can't find an
easy way to do this. It's trivial with HTML::Parser, but since I already