Linux Journal Issue #35/March 1997

Emphasis: Perl

Features

• Creating and Using a Database with Perl by Randy Scott
  There are a variety of different database formats in a UNIX environment available to the Perl programmer.
• Perl and Sockets by Mike Mull
  Learn about Perl's ability to use sockets, a mechanism of interprocess communication and the basis for most Internet clients and servers.
• Wherefore Art, Thou? by Larry Wall
  The discourse on the art of Perl programming, originally printed in The Perl Journal.

News & Articles

• AMD--AutoMount Daemon by Matthew Crosby
• Using the 12C Bus with Linux by Simon G. Vogl
• The Death of Xenix by Evan Leibovitch
• The Guide to Virtual Services by Chad Robinson
• NEdit by Dan Wilder
• Setting Up UUCP by James L Hill

Reviews

• Product Review
  • Metro-X and Accelerated-X by Jonathan Gross
• Book Review
  • Programming Perl by Phil Hughes
  • Perl 5 by Example by Sid Wentworth

WWWsmith

• Writing Man Pages in HTML by Michael Hamilton
• A Point About Polygons by Bob Stein
• At the Forge: Using the httpd error log to debug CGI by Reuven Lerner

Columns

• Letters to the Editor
• Linux Means Business: Linux Means Business for the City of Garden Grove, CA by Pyng Chang and Charles Kalil
• New Products
• Linux Gazette: Using the TCSH Shell by Jasper K Pedersen
• Best of Technical Support by Gena Shurtleff