=head1 NAME
-perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 18:37:57 $)
+perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
DEV->autoflush(1);
As mentioned in the previous item, this still doesn't work when using
-socket I/O between Unix and Macintosh. You'll need to hardcode your
+socket I/O between Unix and Macintosh. You'll need to hard code your
line terminators, in that case.
=item non-blocking input
basis.) This mechanism will work for Unix, MS-DOS, Windows, and NT;
the VMS equivalent is C<set time>.
-However, if all you want to do is change your timezone, you can
+However, if all you want to do is change your time zone, you can
probably get away with setting an environment variable:
$ENV{TZ} = "MST7MDT"; # unixish
Note that you I<must> use Bourne shell (sh(1)) redirection syntax in
backticks, not csh(1)! Details on why Perl's system() and backtick
and pipe opens all use the Bourne shell are in
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
+http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot .
To capture a command's STDERR and STDOUT together:
$output = `cmd 2>&1`; # either with backticks
=head2 Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
Try the Net::FTP, TCP::Client, and Net::Telnet modules (available from
-CPAN). http://www.perl.com/CPAN/scripts/netstuff/telnet.emul.shar
+CPAN). http://www.cpan.org/scripts/netstuff/telnet.emul.shar
will also help for emulating the telnet protocol, but Net::Telnet is
quite probably easier to use..
=head2 How do I use an SQL database?
There are a number of excellent interfaces to SQL databases. See the
-DBD::* modules available from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/DBD .
-A lot of information on this can be found at
-http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/
+DBD::* modules available from http://www.cpan.org/modules/DBD .
+A lot of information on this can be found at http://dbi.perl.org/
=head2 How do I make a system() exit on control-C?