Article 7406 of comp.lang.perl: Xref: feenix.metronet.com comp.lang.perl:7406 Path: feenix.metronet.com!news.utdallas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!chnews!ornews.intel.com!ornews.intel.com!merlyn From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Llama examples are out before the book [barely :-] Date: 29 Oct 93 09:20:18 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services ; Portland, Oregon, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: snoopy.intel.com I started getting odd mail messages two days ago, and traced it down to an interesting happening... The Learning Perl exercise answers and examples from chapter one have already been loaded into ora.com:pub/nutshell/learning_perl/examples. One of the examples uses *my* real email address as a person to notify if someone enters a bad password. I used my address deliberately as a tiny "market survey" to see who would run the program unmodified on an internet-mail-accessible host. What surprised me is that people have randomly downloaded this text and began executing it *without* the Llama book in hand! Weird. Anyway, if you wanna look at some of the exercise answers (but that'd be cheating :-), the file's there for your perusal. (They tell me the book will be shipping next week... someone from ORA is making the "official" announcement in comp.newprod.) print "Just another Perl [book] hacker," -- Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying Email: Snail/FAX: (Call) DON'T REPLY TO: Phrase: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon ... home of the California Raisins!" Article 3 of biz.oreilly.announce: Xref: feenix.metronet.com biz.oreilly.announce:3 Newsgroups: biz.oreilly.announce Path: feenix.metronet.com!news.utdallas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!ora.com!daemon From: Brian Erwin Subject: O'Reilly's Learning perl Message-ID: <199311011721.AA02733@rock.west.ora.com> Originator: ora-news@online.ora.com X-Comment: Announcements from O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Precedence: bulk Sender: ora-news@ora.com Reply-To: brian@ora.com Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0a -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Errors-To: listown@ora.com Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 21:19:00 GMT Approved: listown@ora.com Lines: 57 I apologize for posting this so soon after the _sendmail_ posting of last week. Both books happen to be be released on the same day, today. Learning perl By Randal L. 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