spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

The i2a2-auth.pl file contains a Perl script, written by Ron Kittendorf, that shows how to use the Net::LDAP Perl module to bind via the I2A2 LDAP protocol converter. The script uses the Net::LDAP ...

Until January of 2002, programmers wanting a book on Perl/Tk had one option: Learning Perl/Tk, by Nancy Walsh. Although well researched and accurate, it gave the reader only a basic familiarity with ...

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...