Re: Execute Windows program from Perl script (??)

From: Zebee Johnstone (zebee_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:03:39 GMT

In comp.lang.perl.misc on 31 Aug 2004 07:43:37 -0700
Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> "Zebee" == Zebee Johnstone <zebee@zip.com.au> writes:
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>Zebee> But I think most people are lost and really dont' understand what to ask
>Zebee> yet.
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> Then they should find a help desk. Usenet is not a help desk.

WHich is what learn.perl.org *is* more or less. WHich is why I'm having
trouble working out why you are opposed to telling people it's there and
go to it.

After all, where are non-corporate people going to find a help desk
about perl if the community doesn't provide it?

> Neither are the mailing lists that you keep waving about at
> learn.perl.org, which have less noise only because they also have less
> signal. If those mailing lists handled as much volume as this
> newsgroup, the noise would go up significantly.

Noise isn't the problem, it's how the noise is handled.
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And the tribalism is precisely the problem that they are trying to
solve. I hope they can continue to be successful in it.

Zebee