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From: porsche@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (John Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Reading /etc/utmp with perl.
Message-ID: <100180001@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 00:59:28 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I seem to remember that while browsing through the O'Reilly Programming Perl
book, I chanced on a short perl script for reading /etc/utmp.  At the time, I
said to myself, "That's interesting, I might use it someday".  Well, someday
came yesterday, and I can't for the life of me find that script again (there
is no utmp entry in the index, I don't have the manuscript online so I can't
grep for it, and I'm not yen proficient enough in perl to reproduce it).  Short
of reading the book backwards, I probably won't find it either.  Tell me I'm
not crazy, tell me it's in there, (tell me the page too please).

John Milton
porsche@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com