[Mimedefang] A little confusered

[Karel.DeBruyne at ua.ac.be]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Weyland wrote:

> From: <Karel.DeBruyne at ua.ac.be>
>
> > > The man page: man mimedefang-filter is a good place to start, assuming
> > > you know Perl.  If you do not know Perl, then good luck... you have a
> > > steep learning curve ahead. :-)
> >
> > I don't agree !
> > If you know any other programming language (Pascal, C, Basic,...) one can
> > get very fast used to Perl.
> > Just buy "Programming Perl" from O'Reilly, skip the "Learning Perl".
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Karel
>
> Greetz, Karel~!
>
> Well, thatz the problem... I'm still new enough to not know anything...
> I *have* played around with the Advanced BASH
> Shell Scripting Guide, but I'm admittedly still quite the novice.
> I managed to write a few very simple things, but nothing spectacular.
>
> That sums up my programming experience. (:<)
>
> So, would you still say to skip "Learning Perl" ?

In your case, enjoy "Learning Perl" for a few weeks. Maybe you can borrow
it somewhere.

Perl is lot easier than bash.

How did you manage to install MIMEDefang (and Sendmail) without as a
novice ? Configuring Sendmail is a lot more complicated...

Karel

>
> Thanks,
>
> Weyland
>
>
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