Re: [mv] mv_range_lock doesn't work in MV4!

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 jojo@buchonline.net wrote:

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> On 30 Mar, Mike Heins wrote:
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> > 
> > I took out the ability to combine range look with coordinated search, and
> > I think I documented that in WHATSNEW. The reasons were performance, code
> > complexity, and correctness. If you are strong of stomach, try reading
> > the get_limit subroutine in Search.pm. 8-)
> 
> I´ve read WHATSNEW and there are no hints to range_look or whatsoever.
> Maybe the english text is too difficult for me?
> 
> I _must_ be strong of stomach! I _must_ be strong of head to understand
> all english text and and your fine codes. I make a survival training
> every day (eating iron and beating my head with wooden beam). ;-))

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> 
> I´ve updated minivend from 4.02 to 4.03 today. I´m sure, your codes
> works well for you. I make my survival training once more and read your
> codes get_limit in Search.pm and TextSearch.pm at the line 142.
> 
> Hmmmm....i look into your codes like a cow with no idea how to play
> piano. ;-)
> 

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Hi Joachim,

just wanted to let you know that your struggle and survival training
is watched with compassion from someone who has an idea how it feels...
was a little calf at one point in time and feel like an old dumb ox now...

But now, AFAIK, you can work fulltime with your project and MV etc.
(meaning time and money is there to support your activities), what
is your strategy to teach the cow how to moooh and produce some milk ?

How much time and which books to you use to teach yourself programming
in Perl and system administration in the UNIX environment ? 

The question is also more general, my observation is that students
with a structured learning experience in programming in the UNIX
environment  make that jump from being a newbie html/webdesigner
to being a programmer/webmaster/sysadm much, much faster and easier than
completely selftaught people outside the sysadm/ISP/programmer
industry. Once in a while those outsiders run into MV and are getting
hooked to train themselves to do the jump. 

What would make this training for these outsiders more efficient in your
opinion ?

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> > ]Search for foo containing bar, buz!=baz, zip > value of zap[/page]
> > 
> > The advantage of this is that you don't have to coordinate your op=
> > and nu= and cs= things, it is done automagically. You can also use the
> > new search grouping feature of MV4, which allows the equivalent of (
> > foo =~ bar AND buz!=baz) OR zip>zap.  All this just awaits documentation
> > time.... 8-)
> 

Wow, Mike, I hope you get the time from somewhere.

Birgitt Funk

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