Re: Perl vocabulary builder utility

Hey... great idea. But instead of copying info from the O'Reilly CD why not just copy directly from the man pages that are part of the standard Perl distribution? For the purpose of flash cards this should be more than fine.... and you wouldn't violate copyright in the process. You should be able to access the man pages pretty easily no matter what machine you're on... ActiveState distributes them in html format (easily cut-able and paste-able) and of course the *NIX distributions have them, too.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

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Re: Re: Perl vocabulary builder utility by nysus (Parson) on Apr 12, 2001 at 08:51 UTC
Gary, I was looking at some of the examples from an O'Reilly book and comparing them to the perlman examples. The perlman examples seem just a little to arcane for my tastes. That's because the perlman is meant to be a reference, not a teaching aid. The good news is I found this node.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl vocabulary builder utility by Trimbach (Curate) on Apr 12, 2001 at 15:13 UTC
Quoting O'Reilly texts to answer individual questions online is one thing... repackaging and redistributing a substantial amount of their content into another format is quite another. IANAL, but if you are interested in pursuing this project for other than your own use you should fly O'Reilly an email yourself to make sure you're not doing "Godzilla meets Tokyo" on their copyright. :-D Gary Blackburn Trained Killer	[reply]