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Re: [MacPerl] Looking for Fingers and Whois modules



On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 08:04:30AM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:

> At 23.30 -0500 1999.02.10, Iain Chalmers wrote:
> >just installed it using chris's port of CPAN
> >(it took all of 30 seconds or so)
> >
> >the first example in the pod works just fine
> 
> Which, Finger or Whois?  Whois 0.23 partially works, but not completely.
> 
> I just tested Net::Finger.  Seems to work except that the ouput does not do
> newline translation, and it probably should.  Once you get the data from
> finger, just do:
> 
>    $finger_data =~ s/\015?\012/\n/g;

	Bother, you're right. *slap*

	Sorry 'bout that... new version uploading to CPAN now...


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