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Windows NT Win32 Perl Programming (Windows NT Network Architecture & Developer) (Paperback)

by Dave Roth (Author)
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Core Perl is an incredibly powerful programming language which has proved a major hit with the Unix and Windows programming community.

Add a whole heap of plug-in modules and it raises the language to a whole new level of usability and usefulness.

In this excellent volume Dave Roth (who, coincidentally, is a prolific Win32 Perl module writer) thoroughly documents and explains the standard extensions, gathering for the first time all of the information vital to squeezing the best from these freeware add-ins.

From ODBC to user authentication over networks and even playing .WAV files there's something here to excite the interest of anyone using Perl on a Windows-based platform, even to the extent that Roth explains the intricacies of using the Win32::API module to access DLLs directly--powerful stuff indeed.

Backed up by dozens of useful code snippets and examples this is such a useful book no self- respecting Win/Perl hacker should be without it.



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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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ok - but could be more balanced, 10 Jul 1999
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Mixed feelings about this book. Some chapters are fine - others leave a lot to be desired. Overall it is worth having as it does clear up some issues and the chapters on writing your own extensions, file management, data access and processes are very good. There are some errors and typos that would stump a novice Win32 perl programmer however.

I got the impression that the author concentrated on the extensions he developed very well but only gave the the other (more useful?) extensions a decent explanation if he was interested in them.

The book starts off well detailing error handling and system administration for Perl on the Win32 platform. It started to dissapoint here as, in places, much more detail is included on the authors own web pages. There is a lot of detail on the more esetoric details of Win32 Perl such as Com & OLE, consoles and sound. This stuff is interesting but not as important as the more common and useful extensions dealing in, say, system administration.

The author (not surprisingly!) treats the extensions he has written himself in most detail - ODBC in particular. This is fine but glaring omissions are even here. For example the chapter on communication mentions the win32::pipe and win32::message extentions but nowhere does it explain that these are additional extentions that need to be downloaded and installed first (in most cases at least). I know from first hand experience that this would fox a newcomer to Win32 Perl builds.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for NT Perl Users, 25 May 1999
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There are tons of bits and pieces of this information on the web and in .htm help files, but this book brings it together nicely.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fills A Big Hole In The Perl Win32 Documentation, 21 Mar 1999
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This book is a must for any NT administrator. It gives you loads of practical information that can make you life easier.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable for perl on Win32
This book is an excellent resource for people writing administrative scripts on the Win32 platform using perl. Read more
Published on 29 Jul 2002 by S. W. Hawkes

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother
I was pretty excited to see a dedicated treatment of Perl on Windows (Learning on Win32 systems doesn't quite cut the mustard) and bought this book. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Good discussions on Perl and NT issues.
Well written discussions on Perl and NT issues. Some topics were missing like MAPI and TAPI, but overall well written. I recommend it for anyone using Perl and NT.
Published on 6 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars ODBC
I would how to have the result of a request in a Web Page
Published on 19 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Great job on a long-neglected topic
This book is excellent. It is a thorough and detailed look at the Win32 extensions to Perl. It will be useful to all Perl programmers in the Windows 9x/NT environment.
Published on 8 Mar 1999

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