RE: Recommendations for learning Perl -DOCUMENTATION!!!

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

Dear Everyone,

 

If you find that something is missing from the documentation, please write a new section documenting it.

 

If you find that an existing section is insufficient, please edit it or add to it.

 

Please email these new or revised sections to minivend-docs@minivend.com.

 

Doing this acutally takes less time than a good flaming email, but may not feel as good. ;-)

 

Christopher Thompson

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of mike
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 11:06 AM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: Recommendations for learning Perl

Perhaps I am the sole dissenting opinion, but I've been trying to get this minivend package to work on my NT system for the last year to no avail.  It has been possibly the most wasteful and burdonesome trial I've ever experienced, and I am a programmer with experience in NT/Unix administration, Dos/Unix shell scripting, and lead a local Perl User group in MD. 

It has a lot of potential, I just can't seem to get by the catalog setup part.  I've set up a special IP address under IIS4.0, and even started taking apart the actual Perl Code to see what may be stalling this process.  The worst part is that even after "Reading the Fricking Manual" for Minivend, I still feel as if this is basically an undocumented program.  At least from the NT point of view.