From chastain at lucent.com Tue Jul 6 20:22:55 1999 From: chastain at lucent.com (Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR **) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Hello! Message-ID: <78F8A7599812D211A57C00805F9F91E00291C80B@NJ0117EXCH002U> Greetings, Walt and Arthur! Also, any future Mongers that may get this in archive! Gee, I feel like I am really in on the "ground floor" here! I am a Sys Admin (Sun) working with Lucent Technologies in Whippany, NJ. I live just north of Newburgh off Rt 32 (actually about 1 mile due north of the northbound plaza on the thruway. I am really pleased to find a local group! I have been a member of Albany PM for about 8 months now and driving to Troy every other week, though a great time, is a bit taxing! I have been using Perl for about 3 years or so. Grew into it from sed and awk. I am a "home grown" admin - no "formal" training (unless you count one SysAdmin Sun class way back when 4.1.3 was just being released! I learned perl from the book and a few really good classes. I am certainly not in the same league as some of the folks I get to hang with in Albany, but I figure, sitting close to the fire, I am bound to get a tan! It is a bit embarrassing to admit that, at present, I do not even have perl installed on my E-450 at Lucent. Just too much to do. I DID download the distribution today, though, and hope to have it installed sometime soon! I was at yapc and had a great time - hope you guys got to go! I don't have much in the way of suggestions for meeting places, but I am pretty flexible (though I prefer to stay away from smoke-filled rooms.) Wonder what you folks do with perl, where you work, etc? I think I should get an archive from the list - but I will have to go read the help page first! Hope to meet you folks in person soon! From chastain at lucent.com Wed Jul 7 18:23:02 1999 From: chastain at lucent.com (Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR **) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: OK - So I screwed up! Message-ID: <78F8A7599812D211A57C00805F9F91E00291C813@NJ0117EXCH002U> Well, I have just noticed that my initial message to the new Hudson Valley PM group went to my old buddies in Albany instead! Sorry about that guys! More on why at the next meeting! From chastain at lucent.com Fri Jul 9 13:43:28 1999 From: chastain at lucent.com (Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR **) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Communications question Message-ID: <78F8A7599812D211A57C00805F9F91E00291C82F@NJ0117EXCH002U> Greetings, all A friend of mine is doing some serial communications control - something I would very much like to do myself - with perl. He has a single snag. This question has also been asked (and ignored?) on clpm, so..... He is using the fnctl module and controlling things very nicely - but cannot initiate a BREAK sequence. We need a BREAK to control operation of an underlying network system. There apparently is no indications in the fnctl module for a BREAK sequence. Is anyone out there familiar with running any sort of serial communications through perl - and, though I can not imagine anyone except us needing a BREAK signal, does anyone know how to generate one using perl? PS: we already know it is not a character, so don't go there! Thanks! Jack From bholzman at earthlink.net Fri Jul 9 14:34:49 1999 From: bholzman at earthlink.net (Benjamin Holzman) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Communications question In-Reply-To: <78F8A7599812D211A57C00805F9F91E00291C82F@NJ0117EXCH002U>; from Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR ** on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:43:28PM -0400 References: <78F8A7599812D211A57C00805F9F91E00291C82F@NJ0117EXCH002U> Message-ID: <19990709153449.G993@hyperion.holzvania> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:43:28PM -0400, Chastain, Jack (Jack)** CTR ** wrote: > Greetings, all > > A friend of mine is doing some serial communications control - something I [ ... ] > underlying network system. There apparently is no indications in the fnctl > module for a BREAK sequence. > I believe that what you are looking for is what the POSIX function tcsendbreak() does, which is available in perl as follows: use POSIX qw/tcsendbreak/; tcsendbreak(fileno(FILEHANDLE), $duration); you should check your local man pages on tcsendbreak to understand $duration exactly. Ben -- sub v ($){ $_ ? uc shift : $_[0] } sub erse { /../ && return 'a'..'z';'A'..'Z'} $_='CEVAG ERIREFR RINY ERIREFR D.uNPXRE, cREY, nABGURE, wHFG} _$ RFERIRE ENYNPF {CNZ ,"$ AVBW.';s'.'$_{"\x35"}'geee;eval;BEGIN{for(0,32){@{chr(64|$_)}{v n..v z ,v a..v 'm'}=erse()}@_{53,3..5}=('$`{$&}||$@{$&}||$&',map '$_{'.$_.'}',51..53)} From coopercc at netheaven.com Mon Jul 12 22:10:46 1999 From: coopercc at netheaven.com (Clark Cooper) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers meeting Message-ID: <199907130310.XAA01283@camel> Folks, We're doing the meeting thing Tuesday night at the Troy Brew pub. Please come so that Jack Chastain and I don't have to carry the conversation by ourselves. And I'm still waiting to give away some stuff from the YAPC conference in Pittsburgh (shirts, Free BSD CD-ROMs, perl reference booklet.) -- Clark Cooper Software Engineer Home: coopercc@netheaven.com Schenectady, NY USA Work: cccooper@ltionline.com From Clark.Cooper at corporate.ge.com Wed Jul 14 08:10:46 1999 From: Clark.Cooper at corporate.ge.com (Cooper, Clark (CORP, Consultant)) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers meeting last night Message-ID: We had 3 of us at the Troy Brew Pub last night (thanks to Jack Chastain and Steve Olson). A waiter told us that there had been somebody looking for us but didn't find us (despite Jack's black Perl Mongers baseball cap.) Whoever you are, we're sorry you didn't stick it out and find us. We'd have enjoyed your company. Clark Cooper Logic Technologies, Inc. Home: coopercc@netheaven.com (518) 388-7451 650 Franklin St. Work: cccooper@ltionline.com Schenectady, NY 12305 From coopercc at netheaven.com Tue Jul 27 07:24:42 1999 From: coopercc at netheaven.com (Clark Cooper) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:56:41 2004 Subject: Perl Mongers meeting Message-ID: <199907271224.IAA00209@camel> Sorry I'm late with this. We've got another meeting tonight, still at the Troy Brew pub. I'm applying pressure to the members at Bender to attend tonight, so maybe we'll have a decent turnout (i.e. more than 3). Our long lost Dan Moniz might be there (I ran into him on #perl last night.) If he makes it, we can all help him decide on a new IRC nickname. Also, I *still* have goodies from YAPC to give out. I never thought it would be so hard to give the stuff away. See ya there. -- Clark Cooper Software Engineer Home: coopercc@netheaven.com Schenectady, NY USA Work: cccooper@ltionline.com