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| author | Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine@chaos.wustl.edu> | 2001-04-20 11:42:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-04-21 15:28:36 +0000 |
| commit | b0bd3af069a3c8d49a3cd10f809aa5f093a9333c (patch) | |
| tree | 2f1cc021c46caef11fa7f3e2f01422e665427af1 /pod/perlfaq2.pod | |
| parent | 686b7f4c671f40b57b29f85b578e862c1a0894ca (diff) | |
| download | perl-b0bd3af069a3c8d49a3cd10f809aa5f093a9333c.tar.gz | |
perlfaq2.patch for 5.7.1
Message-ID: <20010420164219.J3194@chaos.wustl.edu>
rm an extra tab, a blurb about the xx.cpan to clarify
which countries actually have that and dejanews is history
as well as most of that nonsensical entry.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9772
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index aecc1fc4c3..b463742b88 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ might suffice for you to learn Perl from. If you're not, check out Learning Perl (the "Llama Book"): by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen - with Foreword by Larry Wall + with Foreword by Larry Wall ISBN 1-56592-284-0 [2nd Edition July 1997] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/ @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ following list is I<not> the complete list of CPAN mirrors One may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code for your domain; e.g. Australia would use au.cpan.org. +[Note: This only applies to countries that host at least one mirror.] =head2 What mailing lists are there for Perl? @@ -406,22 +407,15 @@ subscription information. =head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc -Have you tried Deja or AltaVista? Those are the -best archives. Just look up "*perl*" as a newsgroup. - - http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=terse&showsort=date&maxhits=25&subjects=&groups=*perl*&authors=&fromdate=&todate= - -You might want to trim that down a bit, though. +The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup +content. -You'll probably want more a sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism -than a file listing, preferably one that allows you to retrieve -articles using a fast-access indices, keyed on at least author, date, -subject, thread (as in "trn") and probably keywords. The best -solution the FAQ authors know of is the MH pick command, but it is -very slow to select on 18000 articles. +http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc -If you have, or know where can be found, the missing sections, please -let perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com know. +If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the +same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience +to sift through all the content but often you will find the answer you +seek. =head2 Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl? |