Thanks for the suggestions... sorry, that book request was for local folks
here.
Some suggested using lynx -dump
http://webpage.com which works nicely...
I want to do some other stuff too so why not put it all in perl...
so others suggested using the LWP::UserAgent module, which is basically
a set of routines which will act as a browser for you without worrying
about all that socket stuff. Another suggested looking for LWP::Simple
Neither of these are installed, so now I need to find them.
Gotta love this group! And unix for being able to do *almost* anything...
Thanks again sysadmins/managers!
Dan
At 03:47 PM 5/6/99 -0400, I wrote:
>Do you know if you can use perl or another shell script to grab a number
>from a remote web page rather than a file?
>
>I need to query a web page that a printer provides as to page count before
>and after a print.
>
>Do we have any perl books?
>
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