RE: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't do ja ck , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?

[Colocator User <minivend@twu.net>]

I make $10 an hour. Do I look like I can spare $15,000? I'm an advocate
of the open-source world and I hate American capitalism (the sort of
thinking that produced the idea of a $15,000 piece of software). And it
bothers me when people who produce good software produce horrible
documentation. If you care enough to produce good software, care enough to
document it well, or have someone do it for ya, surely?

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, mike wrote:

> Hmm.. I'm not going to answer him.  Sorry, but I take flames to this
> group personally.  I say let him pay 15 grand for a commercial program
> that does what this one does.
> 
> vandy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colocator User [mailto:minivend@twu.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 1:16 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't do jack
> , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?
> 
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Colocator User
> <minivend@twu.net>     ******
> 
> Hey there MiniVend gurus--
> 
> 	Just started with the program, and I'm trying to utilize a Perl
> script I've written from within a MiniVend page. The [perl] tag is a
> cruel
> joke; you can't use backticks (due to that stupid Safe module, which I'd
> rather not turn off if I don't have to) or even print statements
> (!!!!!);
> all you can use seems to be setting and returning variables, which is
> unacceptable. I need more than that!
> 
> 	I tried to define the Perl I want as a user tag. It did squat.
> First of all, the syntax listed on the Web site for defining a user tag
> is
> horrible-- MiniVend chokes on it when starting up. Secondly, when I
> finally DID find a way of arranging the damned curly-braces so that it
> wouldn't puke on my user tag, the user tag did SQUAT!
> 
> 	They say the best way to learn is by example. Could someone give
> me an example-- or more than one example-- of a way to display the
> output
> of:
> 
> print "Hi there";
> 
> ...in a MiniVend page?
> 
> 	Flames or "RTFM"s will be passed on to /dev/null. Please give me
> a
> real answer.
> 
> 	Incidentally, the MiniVend FAQ ***SUCKS***. Perhaps something
> more
> like the Perl FAQ is in order-- where it's more of an "all questions
> we've
> been asked that have a simple--or even a not-so-simple-- answer" list
> than
> a "frequently asked questions" list. The MiniVend FAQ only answers the
> simplest of stupid questions...
> 
> 
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