On 11/10/98 at 9:43 AM, Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net> shipped these bits: >Unless someone more knowledgeable would like to take on the task, I'd be >glad to draft a quick-and-dirty list of pointers for newbie MacPerl >users, to be posted once per week (Monday morning sounds good). Personally, if you're going to do this sort of thing, it might be better to just have it mailed to people when they join the list. The weekly posting thing works well on Usenet, where articles expire, but here I think it might start to seem excessive. j -- #!/usr/bin/perl $dot="\x2e";$lt="\x3c";$gt="\x3e";$at="\x40"; print "J Mignault ${lt}mignault${at}nytimes${dot}com${gt}\n"; $yow = qq(Look into my eyes and try to forget that you have a Macy's charge card!); ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch