From gwadej at anomaly.org  Tue Sep  2 19:56:35 2008
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:56:35 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] September Meeting
Message-ID: <20080902215635.6ed76489@sovvan>

The next Houston.pm meeting is a week from tonight (September 9) at
our normal location (1111 Fannin). The directions and information are
available at http://houston.pm.org/meetings.html

We've been meeting in the lobby sometime between 6pm and 6:20pm, and
going to the conference room when everyone arrives. To help streamline
the process, we're asking people who are planning to go to send email
to myself, Todd Rinaldo (toddr at null.net) or the list to let us know
when to expect you. That way we don't leave anyone behind.

Over the last few months, we've been having a sort of combination
"hacking session" and "open discussion" on any topics that relate to
Perl. We've been trying to get started helping with the Perl 6/Rakudo
testing effort and discussing everything from security protocols to
object oriented programming fundamentals.

Come join us for the discussions and hacking, you never know what
you'll learn...or teach.

See you there,
G. Wade
-- 
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
                                                   -- Bruce Schneier

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Tue Sep  9 21:22:47 2008
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:22:47 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008
Message-ID: <20080909232247.5f085475@sovvan>



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:22:25 -0400
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
To: pm_groups at pm.org
Subject: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008


Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group or anywhere you  
think it might find people interested in perl.

Thanks

Robert Blackwell



The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held  
at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will  
be held on October 11?12 2008.

* Talk Proposals

* Classes

* Hack-a-thons



* Talk Proposals

The deadline for talk proposals in by 12 September 2008.

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is the perfect opportunity to share  
your ideas, code, and projects with masses of code-loving Perl  
hackers. Shouldn't you have a speaking slot at this year's event?  
Shouldn't you experience the full, PPW-powered glory that only  
speakers can know?

Of course you should!

Haven't you ...
done interesting stuff for Perl?
written cool code?
seen the future of Perl?
got a story to tell?
got a trick to share?

In fact, if you have anything to say that would interest Perl people,  
we want to hear you say it!

Just go to http://pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy.

But don't delay. Get your proposal in by 12 September 2008 -- or else  
you might miss out.

Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now!



* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html


* Hack-a-thons

We are having a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.




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From toddr at null.net  Tue Sep  9 21:34:11 2008
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:34:11 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fwd: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008
In-Reply-To: <5AA97519-D95F-4F5F-86F3-EC375D7795DA@robertblackwell.com>
References: <5AA97519-D95F-4F5F-86F3-EC375D7795DA@robertblackwell.com>
Message-ID: <748c25c20809092134g6ac326d3k50b9a37114a41480@mail.gmail.com>

Anyone planning on being in Pittsburgh this October...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Subject: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008
To: pm_groups at pm.org


Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group or anywhere you
think it might find people interested in perl.

Thanks

Robert Blackwell



The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held
at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will
be held on October 11?12 2008.

* Talk Proposals

* Classes

* Hack-a-thons



* Talk Proposals

The deadline for talk proposals in by 12 September 2008.

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is the perfect opportunity to share
your ideas, code, and projects with masses of code-loving Perl
hackers. Shouldn't you have a speaking slot at this year's event?
Shouldn't you experience the full, PPW-powered glory that only
speakers can know?

Of course you should!

Haven't you ...
done interesting stuff for Perl?
written cool code?
seen the future of Perl?
got a story to tell?
got a trick to share?

In fact, if you have anything to say that would interest Perl people,
we want to hear you say it!

Just go to http://pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy.

But don't delay. Get your proposal in by 12 September 2008 -- or else
you might miss out.

Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now!



* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html


* Hack-a-thons

We are having a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.




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From toddr at null.net  Tue Sep  9 23:16:04 2008
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:16:04 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] CPAN Docs
Message-ID: <748c25c20809092316q218da833v98980dbe89eabc38@mail.gmail.com>

Robert,

I just wanted to say thanks for pointing me to the the CPAN doc
module: Pod::Server.

I also found another module that is pretty cool: Pod::Browser. It's a
very well done self installing catalyst app to do the same thing as
Pod::Server. I think that's going to start running FastCGI on our
apache server at work.

Todd

From gwadej at anomaly.org  Wed Sep 10 05:19:14 2008
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:19:14 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] [TwinCity PWS 2008] Call for Invitations
Message-ID: <20080910071914.60033d69@sovvan>



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:23:16 +0200
From: Michael Kr?ll <pepl at cpan.org>
To: pm_groups at pm.org
Subject: [pm_groups] [TwinCity PWS 2008] Call for Invitations


Please forward to your local groups.

Hi,

The TwinCity Perl Workshop 2008 will take place in Vienna and Bratislava
from November, 7th to 8th.
This Perl Workshop will be an unique event in several ways as it will be
the *100th grassroot Perl Event*
in the history of humankind and also the first Perl event ever taking
place in two national capitals:
Bratislava and Vienna!

Vienna.pm has set aside a budget of 1000 EUR to invite speakers to the
Twin City Perl Workshop. If you're not living in Bratislava or Vienna,
won't be funded by your company, but want to attend, please send
e-mail to twincity at rt.useperl.at describing why we should invite you and
how much it
will cost to transport you to Vienna and Bratislava! The deadline for
proposals is Sunday 21th Sept. 2008, and we will decide whom to invite
until Wed, 24th Sept.

On Friday, November 7th, Vienna.pm will welcome Perl Hackers from around
the world to Vienna.
The event will continue on Saturday, November 8th, in Bratislava, hosted
by Bratislava.pm.
Each day will feature talks in the local language (German and Slovak) in
the morning,
followed by English talks in the afternoon.
The evenings will be spent at social events in restaurants near the
venues.

On behalf of the TwinCity PWS Organisers
Michael Kr?ll

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From Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com  Tue Sep 23 13:36:01 2008
From: Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com (Haufler, Wayne A)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:36:01 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
Message-ID: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>

I have been trying to write a short Perl script on a PC (ActivePerl)
that would replace duplicate copies of huge video files with Shortcuts
to the corresponding original video files.  To do this, I need and 
acquired the Win32::Shortcut module from CPAN.

The Shortcut's README file claims "You can always find the latest
version of this package online at:
http://www.divinf.it/dada/perl/shortcut

But that dada directory does not appear to exist.

In Win32-Shortcut-0.07\docs\intro.html

		Installation Instructions
1.	Run the INSTALL.BAT program. 
2.	Run the TEST.PL script to see if everything works 

Whereas, the only two files in the eg directory are: ln32.bat and
sample.pl.

Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate the
Makefile.

I'm familiar with make in the Unix world (years ago), but 
can't seem to acquire any form of make program for the PC world.

I do have Cygwin installed (though not the entire package),
but no version of make.exe or gmake.exe is found there.

Must I reinstall the WHOLE Cygwin package? to get make.exe?

Also am aware of minGW and MSYS and tried to install them for their
(supposed) version of make, but keep running into obstacles.

I know, I should ask the Perl::Win32::users list (or similar).


-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
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In Space Shuttle Program (SSP)
Backup Flight System (BFS) 
Displays & Controls Requirements Analyst
Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston
Voice: 	281-226-8626 , Cubicle: 5475
E-mail: wayne.a.haufler at boeing.com
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From andy at petdance.com  Tue Sep 23 13:37:56 2008
From: andy at petdance.com (Andy Lester)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:37:56 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
Message-ID: <1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>


On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote:

> Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate  
> the
> Makefile.


You want nmake.

You can also install Strawberry Perl which takes care of all of this  
for you.

--
Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance




From fluhmann at gmail.com  Tue Sep 23 13:57:34 2008
From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:57:34 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0809231357l23dc83f9r25014f6e61349750@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote:
>
>  Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
>> Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
>> I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate the
>> Makefile.
>>
>
>
> You want nmake.
>
> You can also install Strawberry Perl which takes care of all of this for
> you.


Yes, {Strawberry Perl}++

Jeremy

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From Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com  Tue Sep 23 14:35:35 2008
From: Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com (Haufler, Wayne A)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:35:35 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
Message-ID: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BBC5@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>

nmake, From where?  CPAN?
I've only recently encountered a mention of Strawberry Perl.
Can you point me to it? 

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lester [mailto:andy at petdance.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:38 PM
To: Houston.pm located in Houston, TX.
Cc: dada at perl.it; Haufler, Wayne A; Wayne Haufler (E-mail 2)
Subject: Re: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC


On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote:

> Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate 
> the Makefile.


You want nmake.

You can also install Strawberry Perl which takes care of all of this for
you.

--
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From fluhmann at gmail.com  Tue Sep 23 14:43:53 2008
From: fluhmann at gmail.com (Jeremy Fluhmann)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:43:53 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BBC5@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
	<B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BBC5@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
Message-ID: <7f7c2d5e0809231443x293bea7ey82bd7d5d5e346843@mail.gmail.com>

Strawberry Perl - http://strawberryperl.com/

I'm not sure of a good place to download Nmake.exe, but it's a Microsoft
application (comes with Visual Studio, I believe)

Jeremy

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Haufler, Wayne A <
Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:

> nmake, From where?  CPAN?
> I've only recently encountered a mention of Strawberry Perl.
> Can you point me to it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Lester [mailto:andy at petdance.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: Houston.pm located in Houston, TX.
> Cc: dada at perl.it; Haufler, Wayne A; Wayne Haufler (E-mail 2)
> Subject: Re: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote:
>
> > Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> > Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> > I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate
> > the Makefile.
>
>
> You want nmake.
>
> You can also install Strawberry Perl which takes care of all of this for
> you.
>
> --
> Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Houston mailing list
> Houston at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston
> Website: http://houston.pm.org/
>



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From toddr at null.net  Wed Sep 24 09:42:29 2008
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:42:29 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <7f7c2d5e0809231443x293bea7ey82bd7d5d5e346843@mail.gmail.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<1823EF1D-32BA-448F-9FDB-F4799CD4813C@petdance.com>
	<B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BBC5@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<7f7c2d5e0809231443x293bea7ey82bd7d5d5e346843@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <748c25c20809240942j5321589bo9eda7e23a010628e@mail.gmail.com>

Seriously... Download SP (http://www.strawberryperl.com) and then use
dmake that comes with it. Works great.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Jeremy Fluhmann <fluhmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Strawberry Perl - http://strawberryperl.com/
>
> I'm not sure of a good place to download Nmake.exe, but it's a Microsoft
> application (comes with Visual Studio, I believe)
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Haufler, Wayne A
> <Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:
>>
>> nmake, From where?  CPAN?
>> I've only recently encountered a mention of Strawberry Perl.
>> Can you point me to it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Lester [mailto:andy at petdance.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:38 PM
>> To: Houston.pm located in Houston, TX.
>> Cc: dada at perl.it; Haufler, Wayne A; Wayne Haufler (E-mail 2)
>> Subject: Re: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
>>
>>
>> On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote:
>>
>> > Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
>> > Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
>> > I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate
>> > the Makefile.
>>
>>
>> You want nmake.
>>
>> You can also install Strawberry Perl which takes care of all of this for
>> you.
>>

From mikeflan at att.net  Fri Sep 26 16:08:20 2008
From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:08:20 -0600
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
Message-ID: <48DD6B64.5010401@att.net>


Haufler, Wayne A wrote:
> I have been trying to write a short Perl script on a PC (ActivePerl)
> that would replace duplicate copies of huge video files with Shortcuts
> to the corresponding original video files.  To do this, I need and 
> acquired the Win32::Shortcut module from CPAN.
>
> The Shortcut's README file claims "You can always find the latest
> version of this package online at:
> http://www.divinf.it/dada/perl/shortcut
>
> But that dada directory does not appear to exist.
>
> In Win32-Shortcut-0.07\docs\intro.html
>
> 		Installation Instructions
> 1.	Run the INSTALL.BAT program. 
> 2.	Run the TEST.PL script to see if everything works 
>
> Whereas, the only two files in the eg directory are: ln32.bat and
> sample.pl.
>
> Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate the
> Makefile.
>
> I'm familiar with make in the Unix world (years ago), but 
> can't seem to acquire any form of make program for the PC world.
>
> I do have Cygwin installed (though not the entire package),
> but no version of make.exe or gmake.exe is found there.
>
> Must I reinstall the WHOLE Cygwin package? to get make.exe?
>
> Also am aware of minGW and MSYS and tried to install them for their
> (supposed) version of make, but keep running into obstacles.
>
> I know, I should ask the Perl::Win32::users list (or similar).
>   

That sounds like it would be a handy a program.  It also
sounds like it would be relatively easy to create.  I'm not
sure this is what you want, but I will recommend this
basic structure for traversing the disk.


use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
$| = 1; #Autoflush STDOUT

#finddepth comes from File::Find
#finddepth searches from the bottom of the tree up

my $folder = "C:/Copy";

finddepth(\&Replace, $folder);


sub Replace{
    #NOTE: finddepth chdirs to the directory it's
    #      traversing and sets the filename to $_.
    #      $File::Find::name is the full path to the file

    unless (/\.$/) {
        my $origname = $_;
        s/#/no/g; # Or do something else here
        rename $origname,$_  or die "Couldn't rename $origname!";
        print "File: $origname - $_\n" if (/\./);
        print "Directory: $origname - $_\n" unless (/\./);
    }
}


__END__


I have never used the win32::Shortcut module.

I guess you should create a hash whose key (or
value) is the path and name of the original file.  How
you figure out it is a duplicate is another problem.

If you ever hear of some Perl get-togethers down here in
Clear Lake, please let me know.


Mike


From toddr at null.net  Fri Sep 26 23:01:15 2008
From: toddr at null.net (Todd Rinaldo)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:01:15 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
Message-ID: <748c25c20809262301u63a19e60h4370e443b473d4d9@mail.gmail.com>

Wayne, Back to your original question, once you get SP installed,
Win32::Shortcut comes with SP since I think it's part of
Bundle::Win32. But to get the upgraded copy of the module (If one
exists) all you will have to do is the following to install
Win32::Shortcut

1. run cpan.bat
2. From the command line, type: install Win32::Shortcut
3. It will either download, test, install or tell you that you already
have the latests, in which case you're ready to write code.

The silly way the author seems to be implying may work, but this one
will for sure once you get Strawberry perl in. I haven't dabbled with
shortcuts in a long while, but my memory is they're sufficiently
complicated, that you don't want to re-do this work.

Todd.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A
<Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to write a short Perl script on a PC (ActivePerl)
> that would replace duplicate copies of huge video files with Shortcuts
> to the corresponding original video files.  To do this, I need and
> acquired the Win32::Shortcut module from CPAN.
>
> The Shortcut's README file claims "You can always find the latest
> version of this package online at:
> http://www.divinf.it/dada/perl/shortcut
>
> But that dada directory does not appear to exist.
>
> In Win32-Shortcut-0.07\docs\intro.html
>
>                Installation Instructions
> 1.      Run the INSTALL.BAT program.
> 2.      Run the TEST.PL script to see if everything works
>
> Whereas, the only two files in the eg directory are: ln32.bat and
> sample.pl.
>
> Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate the
> Makefile.
>
> I'm familiar with make in the Unix world (years ago), but
> can't seem to acquire any form of make program for the PC world.
>
> I do have Cygwin installed (though not the entire package),
> but no version of make.exe or gmake.exe is found there.
>
> Must I reinstall the WHOLE Cygwin package? to get make.exe?
>
> Also am aware of minGW and MSYS and tried to install them for their
> (supposed) version of make, but keep running into obstacles.
>
> I know, I should ask the Perl::Win32::users list (or similar).
>
>
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From cblanc at dionysius.com  Sat Sep 27 04:54:16 2008
From: cblanc at dionysius.com (Chris Blanc)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:54:16 -0700
Subject: [pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
In-Reply-To: <48DD6B64.5010401@att.net>
References: <B8D3B35D6093544C8B8813275BD7DDB20759BB3E@XCH-SE-2V2.se.nos.boeing.com>
	<48DD6B64.5010401@att.net>
Message-ID: <20080927115416.GB4762@dionysius.com>

For those who really want to drive themselves nuts:

http://www.stdlib.com/art6-Shortcut-File-Format-lnk.html
http://www.i2s-lab.com/Papers/The_Windows_Shortcut_File_Format.pdf

It's not as painful as I thought, "sort of."


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 05:08:20PM -0600, Mike Flannigan wrote:
> 
> Haufler, Wayne A wrote:
> >I have been trying to write a short Perl script on a PC (ActivePerl)
> >that would replace duplicate copies of huge video files with Shortcuts
> >to the corresponding original video files.  To do this, I need and 
> >acquired the Win32::Shortcut module from CPAN.
> >
> >The Shortcut's README file claims "You can always find the latest
> >version of this package online at:
> >http://www.divinf.it/dada/perl/shortcut
> >
> >But that dada directory does not appear to exist.
> >
> >In Win32-Shortcut-0.07\docs\intro.html
> >
> >		Installation Instructions
> >1.	Run the INSTALL.BAT program. 
> >2.	Run the TEST.PL script to see if everything works 
> >
> >Whereas, the only two files in the eg directory are: ln32.bat and
> >sample.pl.
> >
> >Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> >Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> >I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate the
> >Makefile.
> >
> >I'm familiar with make in the Unix world (years ago), but 
> >can't seem to acquire any form of make program for the PC world.
> >
> >I do have Cygwin installed (though not the entire package),
> >but no version of make.exe or gmake.exe is found there.
> >
> >Must I reinstall the WHOLE Cygwin package? to get make.exe?
> >
> >Also am aware of minGW and MSYS and tried to install them for their
> >(supposed) version of make, but keep running into obstacles.
> >
> >I know, I should ask the Perl::Win32::users list (or similar).
> >  
> 
> That sounds like it would be a handy a program.  It also
> sounds like it would be relatively easy to create.  I'm not
> sure this is what you want, but I will recommend this
> basic structure for traversing the disk.
> 
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use File::Find;
> $| = 1; #Autoflush STDOUT
> 
> #finddepth comes from File::Find
> #finddepth searches from the bottom of the tree up
> 
> my $folder = "C:/Copy";
> 
> finddepth(\&Replace, $folder);
> 
> 
> sub Replace{
>    #NOTE: finddepth chdirs to the directory it's
>    #      traversing and sets the filename to $_.
>    #      $File::Find::name is the full path to the file
> 
>    unless (/\.$/) {
>        my $origname = $_;
>        s/#/no/g; # Or do something else here
>        rename $origname,$_  or die "Couldn't rename $origname!";
>        print "File: $origname - $_\n" if (/\./);
>        print "Directory: $origname - $_\n" unless (/\./);
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> __END__
> 
> 
> I have never used the win32::Shortcut module.
> 
> I guess you should create a hash whose key (or
> value) is the path and name of the original file.  How
> you figure out it is a duplicate is another problem.
> 
> If you ever hear of some Perl get-togethers down here in
> Clear Lake, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
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From gwadej at anomaly.org  Sat Sep 27 20:15:58 2008
From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:15:58 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008
Message-ID: <20080927221558.1c239dc1@sovvan>



Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:26:05 -0400
From: Robert Blackwell <robert at robertblackwell.com>
To: pm_groups at pm.org
Subject: [pm_groups] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Oct 11-12, 2008




Please forward this to your local Perl Monger group and anywhere you  
think might find people that would be interested.

Thanks
Robert Blackwell


The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held  
at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will  
be held on October 11?12 2008.

* Classes

This year we are offering three great classes:

Dan Klein is back teaching From Zero to Perl.
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/zerotoperl.html

Peter Scott - Maintaining Code While Staying Sane
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/maintainingcode.html

brian d foy - Mastering Perl
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/masteringperl.html

* Great Talks

The schedule can be found here http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/schedule.

* Hack-a-thons

We are having Pagtrick Michaud lead a Rakudo, (Perl 6) hack-a-thon.

* Bug Labs

Bug Labs, http://buglabs.net will be giving a talk and having a hands  
on demo of their hardware.
We will also be giving details about a development grant for someone  
wanting to develop something with perl with Bug Labs hardware.

* GPU/CUDA

Have you been hearing about coding with your Graphics Card?  Well if  
not you will soon.  We are having a talk about coding with the GPU and  
a lab using Nvida's Cuda technology.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

* Community

Come see old perl friends and make some new ones.  We will have plenty  
of social activities at night.




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From: gwadej at anomaly.org (G. Wade Johnson)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:26:36 -0500
Subject: [pm-h] Fw: O'Reilly UG News-Maker Faire Austin Oct 18 and 19
Message-ID: <20080930172636.6e21fa10@sovvan>

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