From jay at adei.com  Mon Apr 12 13:12:25 1999
From: jay at adei.com (Jay Di Silvestri)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:21:32 2004
Subject: Sonoma.pm
Message-ID: <37123789.9BA4A33@adei.com>

nblug is having a meeting tomorrow.  Since many of the people on this
list are nblugers, I'm hoping that we can show up at that meeing and get
Sonoma.pm off the ground for real. . . As an inducement, O'reilly has
provided some T shirts and books. That we will give away.  If you decide
to go please rsvp to nblug at www.nblug.org  Below is the .info from the
nblug page on the meeting.
TIA
jay@adei.com

This month we have something special for you. Since we have lost our
meeting space at O'Reilly & Associates (only temporarily hopefully), we
thought this would be a nice opportunity to have a social gathering. We
have reserved the banquet room at Pizza Gourmet for our next meeting.
They have some pretty good pizza, and they also offer pasta dishes and a
few other items.

We will also be doing a small, but informative presentation on how to
get your machine to boot Windows NT, Windows 95 and Linux happily. As a
lot of Linux users are coming from the Windows world, they sometimes
don't want to give up the false sense of security of their current
operating system, or maybe they still need it for work or whatnot. Well,
we will show you how to multi-boot your machine - something that may be
difficult for the person new to Linux.

If you will be coming, please RSVP. This will allow us to let Pizza
Gourmet know how many people will be coming. There is room in the
banquet room for 40 people. We have the room reserved for 7:30-9:30. I
will be there at about 7:15 or so. Show up early if you would like to
watch the presentation. There is seating right out of the banquet area,
but you won't be able to participate in the presentation very well.

Pizza Gourmet is located at 1415 Fulton Road, inside the Raley's
Shopping Center. They are at the north end of the complex. Plan on being
there no later than 7:30 and bringing your appetites!

Dustin Mollo



From jay at adei.com  Mon Apr  5 13:15:43 1999
From: jay at adei.com (Jay Di Silvestri)
Date: Thu Aug  5 00:21:36 2004
Subject: Perl Quickie
References: <370825B9.8747AD0F@well.com>
Message-ID: <3708FDCF.B29DB9AC@adei.com>

I think that the answer is in the pack function, but I don't work with
hex numbers enough to get working code.   I'm forwarding this to the
group list.  Perhaps someone will know.  I was surprised to find out
that print "\x23", will print that character, but $foo="23"; print
"\x${foo}"  will not yield the same result.

here is the info on joining  Sonoma.pm
<announce>
Sonoma.pm  (a local Perl Mongers group) is now forming.   The group will

be a resource for Perl programmers at all experience levels.  You can
join the mailing list by sending the following command to
majordomo@hfb.pm.org: subscribe  santa-rosa-pm-list
Please post any ideas/suggestions that you have for the group to that
list,
or if you prefer, send mail to jay@adei.com</announce>

William Smith wrote:

> Hi --
>   I got your name from the Perl user group page.
> I am in Novato. Learning Perl... stuck. (I am a C programmer).
> I want to create a file and fill it with 256 bytes 0x00 -> 0xff.
> Everything I try writes text representations of the numbers.
> Can you help?
> Or if you cannot, can you direct me to someone who could.
> Thanks. Sorry to trouble you.
> Also please send info on the user group.
> Thanks.
> -- William Smith
>    netsmith@well.com