Hey Mike!

Apr 04 10:41 04, Mike Miller wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MM>  It is, all my websites are done in PHP.  but PHP will also parse 
 MM> files like Perl does. so I really use it for anything where shell 
 MM> scripting wouldn't be useful.

Sounds interesting.  Does it have an equivalent of the (un)pack function? 
That is 99.99% of the reason I even use perl at all.  I have been looking
for a standalone commandline tool that was simular and have even gone so
far as to persue that with a bash script with calls to gawk, sed and the
such.  However the perl function is so far superior.  I'll keep picking
away at it though as I would find that extremely handy.  You wouldn't
happen to know of such a critter?  I may have to resort to programming one
in C if such a thing doesn't already exist.  I'm surprised I haven't found
anything yet so I am thinking I must be looking at this wrong somehow.

 MM>  I don't need to do much scripting, but almost all of my BBS scripts 
 MM> are done with bash.

I've been doing meuning for dialog with bash scripts.  Quite handy and
could easily be encorportated into a BBS.  Where the real problem lies is
when console handicapped boxes, such as Windows, connect then things tend
to go awry with their display and keyboards.  However if one avoids
providing apps where the function keys and the such are needed, such as mc
for example, then it makes it extremely doable.  I may end up programming
this sort of thing in ncurses once I get a better handle on what works and
what doesn't on the handicapped boxes.  One thing I learned over the years
is that I am extremely happy I've never succumbed to those type of OSes
regardless of their popularity.  Personally I find them far too boring. 
:-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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