> I knew what practically all of them meant. Now I'm more curious about *your* > background that you would (a) be on FWP but (b) not know what these mean. Well I had some idea on some of them (hence the smiley), but just reading how the the original poster was spewing them out in long gooey strings... > Care to share? I do research / algorithm development / rapid prototyping in the areas of text processing, natural language processing, knowledge discovery from text, etc. I use perl almost exclusively, and I have a lot of FUN doing it. I've been on UNIX systems constantly since 1985 or so, but I never had to do SA (another new acronym for me ;-) until our real sysadmin quit about 1.5 years ago. -- - - Martin "Kingpin" Thurn mthurn@tasc.com Research Software Engineer (703) 793-3700 x2651 The Information Refinery http://tir.tasc.com TASC, Inc. http://www.tasc.com How you get so big, eating food of this kind? -- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe