Anyone who has ever worked in a networked environment running different operating systems using different filesystems knows the frustration of trying to get every computer to see the data on every other computer. Even on my multi-boot test computer, NT can't see the data on my FAT32 partition, Windows 98 can't see the data on my NTFS partition, DOS can't see data on either partition -- and these operating systems are all installed on the same hard drive. more...
The standard Perl distribution comes with a debugger, although it's really just another Perl program, perl5db.pl. Since it is just a program, I can use it as the basis for writing my own debuggers to suit my needs, or I can use the interface perl5db.pl provides to configure its actions. That's just the beginning, though. read more...
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