Synopses & Reviews
Designed to provide in-depth documentation on Windows-specific funtionality in Perl. This book is the ideal resource for system administrators, and programmers who want to employ the Perl language in their Windows NT or Windows 95 network. Intended for intermediate advanced level users, this authoritative guide includes: critical information on program automation covering OLE and COM object management; thorough coverage of communication-oriented procedures; detailed guidelines for data access with ODBC including routing operations, advanced features, and troubleshooting fixes; hard to find information on extension and function syntax, Win32: ODBC function constants, and Win32network error descriptions; and numerous proven scripts ready for use.
Synopsis
This book is a guide to Perls most common Win32 extensions, grouped by their functionality. The new edition updates coverage from Perl 5.05 to current Perl version 5.6. It also includes new chapters offering critical, badly-needed information regarding security for Win32Perl, the topic most highly requested by reviewers. The appendices have descriptions and syntax of each function in the extensions covered. Each chapter makes extensive use of code segments to illustrate the use of specific functions and real world scenarios in which these functions can be used.
About the Author
Dave Roth is the contributor of various popular Win32 Perl Extensions, including Win32::ODBC, Win32::AdminMisc, Win32::Daemon, and Win32::Perms, and has been providing solutions to the Perl community since 1994. Dave has been a speaker at the OReilly Perl and USENIX LISA NT conferences. He has contributed to The Perl Journal and is the author of Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrators Handbook (1578702151, New Riders, 10/00). Dave has been programming since 1981 in various languages, from assembler to C++, LPC and Perl. His code is used by organizations as diverse as Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Defense, Disney, Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Paper,Hewlett-Packard, Metagenix, Radcom, and various colleges and universities. Formerly, Dave helped assemble and admister a statewide WAN for the state of Michigan, and he has designed and administered LANs for Ameritech and Michigan State University.
Table of Contents
1. Why Perl on your Win32 machine?
2. Network Administration.
3. Administration of Machines.
4. File Management.
5. Automation.
6. Communication.
7. DataAccess.
8. Processes.
9. Console, Sound, and Administrative Win32 Extensions.
10. Writing Your Own Extension.
11. Security.
12. Common Mistakes and Troubleshooting.