Features

• Creating and Using a Database with Perl  by Randy Scott
  There are a variety of different database formats in a UNIX environment available to the Perl programmer.
  
• Perl and Sockets  by Mike Mull
  Learn about Perl's ability to use sockets, a mechanism of interprocess communication and the basis for most Internet clients and servers.
  
• Wherefore Art, Thou?  by Larry Wall
  The discourse on the art of Perl programming, originally printed in The Perl Journal .
  

News & Articles

• AMD—AutoMount Daemon  by Matthew Crosby
  
• Using the 12C Bus with Linux  by Simon G. Vogl
  
• The Death of Xenix  by Evan Leibovitch
  
• The Guide to Virtual Services  by Chad Robinson
  
• NEdit  by Dan Wilder
  
• Setting Up UUCP  by James L Hill
  

Reviews

• Product Review   Metro-X and Accelerated-X  by Jonathan Gross
  
• Book Review   Programming Perl  by Phil Hughes
  
• Book Review   Perl 5 by Example  by Sid Wentworth
  

WWWsmith

• Writing Man Pages in HTML  by Michael Hamilton
  
• A Point About Polygons  by Bob Stein
  
• At the Forge   Using the httpd error log to debug CGI  by Reuven Lerner
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• Linux Means Business   Linux Means Business for the City of Garden Grove, CA  by Pyng Chang and Charles Kalil
  
• New Products  
  
• Linux Gazette   Using the TCSH Shell  by Jasper K Pedersen
  
• Best of Technical Support  by Gena Shurtleff