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(...) Just a couple: Brikwars (URL) Hammer (URL) last one has links to some others as well. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm, I don't think I'm old enough for that yet. :-D I've just picked up Perl relatively recently. I'd hesitate to do a 100 Mb STDIO pipe on any MS platform. In DOS and Win16/95/98 (which are single-tasking OS's no matter what MS tells you), (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I have, at various times, seen rules for using Legos and Lego minifigs to stage battles a la Warhammer 40k or other miniatures wargames. Can anyone point me to them on the web? I'm especially interested in sci-fi and fantasy versions, and not so (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Aha, here it is: perl -ane (...) FS is awk is the field separator, not the record separator. The record separator in awk is RS. Hmm, doesn't look like Perl has an input field separator -- only an output field separator $, and input/output (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmmm... I *think* a2p handles this by giving the perl script the "while(<>)" loop. I don't think perl will do that by itself. (...) Check perlvar, in the section on $/ (input record separator) -- in Perl, it can only be a regular string, but (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yup! It's a Perl world, but awk is still a great thing! It's hardly my favorite general-purpose programming language, but other than grep and sort and cat and uniq, it's by far my favorite command-line pipe. I think perl has a command line (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Global options - Article layout. 'Don't show HTML source' (...) I didn't know that - my brother is gonna use that function a lot now. (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hrmmm.... I can't see myself giving up slrn since it does almost everything I want a newsreader to do, but I might have to give Gravity another looksee. I know I thought it was not that great before, but I didn't give it much of a chance (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 4 May 1999 22:15:08 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) I can't find this option in the global options! Please where? Another great thing about Gravity is if you only want to respond to a small section of a message, (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <A HREF="mailto:radioti...t=Pre-made subject">mail me!</A> ^^^...^^^ BTW, you might want to experiment (or look up if there is an official use) with some browsers to see whether any of them convert '+' to ' ' in the 'subject=' portion of the (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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