CPAN::WAIT - adds commands to search a WAIT4CPAN server to the CPAN C |
CPAN::WAIT - adds commands to search a WAIT4CPAN server to the CPAN shell()
perl -MCPAN -e shell > wq au=wall > wr 3 > wd 3 > wl 20 > wh > wh wq
CPAN::WAIT adds some comands to the CPAN shell()
to perform
searches on a WAIT server. It connects to a WAIT server using a simple
protocoll resembling NNTP as described in RFC977. It uses the
WAIT::Client module to handle this connection. This in turn
inherits from Net::NNTP from the libnet package. So you need
Net::NNTP to use this module.
If no direct connection to the WAIT server is possible, the modules tries to connect via your HTTP proxy (as given by the CPAN configuration). Be warned though that the emulation of the stateful protocol via HTTP is slow.
The variable CPAN::WAIT::TIMEOUT
specifies the number of seconds to
wait for an answer from the server. The default is 20. You may want to
set it to some larger value if you have a slow connection.
The commands available are:
Here are some query examples:
information retrieval free text query information or retrieval same as above des=information retrieval `information' must be in the description des=(information retrieval) one of them in description des=(information or retrieval) same as above des=(information and retrieval) both of them in description des=(information not retrieval) `information' in description and `retrieval' not in description des=(information system*) wild-card search au=ilia author names may be misspelled
You can build arbitary boolean combination of the above examples. Field names may be abbreviated. For further information see http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/CPAN
The result should look like this:
wq au=wall
1 8.039 a2p - Awk to Perl translator 2 8.039 s2p - Sed to Perl translator 3 8.039 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) 4 8.039 ExtUtils::DynaGlue - Methods for generating Perl extension files 5 8.039 h2xs - convert .h C header files to Perl extensions 6 8.039 Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 7 8.039 h2ph - convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files 8 8.039 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl 9 8.039 pl2pm - Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules. 10 8.039 perlpod - plain old documentation
wr 1
source authors/id/CHIPS/perl5.003_24.tar.gz headline a2p - Awk to Perl translator size 5643 docid data/perl/x2p/a2p.pod
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
CPAN::WAIT - adds commands to search a WAIT4CPAN server to the CPAN C |