With all the name changes we had recently one could get confused. Over the years our good and faithful XPP has been ‘owned’ by the following companies:

Xyvision
Xyvision Enterprise Solutions (X.E.S)
XyEnterprise
SDL XySoft
SDL

So depending in which decade (century?) you were using XPP, you could be speaking about:

Xyvision IPS (Integrated Publishing System)
Xyvision XPP,
XES XPP (hmm:-),
XyEterprise XPP,
SDL XySoft XPP [...]

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The forthcoming release of XPP 8.2 will involve upgrading the Perl environment to 5.10 – a much anticipated step in some quarters I believe!
Upgrading from ActivePerl 5.8.x to 5.10.x requires that you start afresh by first deleting the old version of ActivePerl. The 5.10.x distribution will then give you a new, base set, of Perl [...]

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Today on the listserv there was question regarding a shell program that no longer worked when ported from Solaris to a Linux environment. My reply to this entry was (unsurprisingly): rewrite the whole thing in Perl and never look back to it any more.
Now today, by coincidence I guess, I’m finding more on the [...]

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One of the many useful features of the XyUser Blog is the ability to post formatted code in your posts using the pre tag.
Pre takes two fields, lang (for the language) which is required and lineno (for line numbering) which is optional.

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