The March issue of Linux Journal (#35) will be printed 22 January 1997 and will be mailed from the printers on 27 January 1997. Subscription orders received by 3:00 pm PDT Monday, 13 January 1997 will start with issue #35. Call during normal West Coast business hours at 206-782-7733. TABLE OF CONTENTS LINUX JOURNAL #35 MARCH 1997 FEATURES Creating and Using a Database with Perl There are a variety of different database formats in a Unix environment available to the Perl programmer. by Randy Scott Perl and Sockets Learn about Perl's ability to use sockets, a mechanism of interprocess communication and the basis for most Internet clients and servers. by Mike Mull Wherefore Art, Thou? A discourse on the art of Perl programming, originally printed in The Perl Journal. by Larry Wall Book Review: Programming Perl The scoop on the second edition of ``The Camel Book''. by Phil Hughes NEWS & ARTICLES A Guide to Virtual Services by Chad Robinson NEdit by Dan Wilder Setting up UUCP by Jim Hill AMD---AutoMount Daemon by Matthew Crosby The Death of Xenix by Evan Leibovitch Fixing a Problem with GNU C Compiler in Slackware 3.0.0 by William Lee Valentine WWWsmith Writing Man Pages in HTML It is easy to deliver the entire existing man system and document format via the Web without reorganization of content or overall structure, using the author's conversion scripts. by Michael Hamilton At the Forge: CGI Programming Learn to use the httpd error log to facilitate your work in this continuation of last month's discussion of debugging CGI programs. by Reuven M. Lerner A Point About Polygons Using a C language routine to simplify traditional point-in-polygon code. by Bob Stein COLUMNS Letters to the Editor Stop the Presses: Action Taken on Linux Trademark Linux Gazette: Using the TCSH Shell Linux Means Business: Linux and the City of Garden Grove Product Review: Metro-X and Accelerated-X Book Review: Perl 5 by Example Best of Technical Support DIRECTORIES Consultants Directory Advertisers Index New Products Linux Journal is carried by some newsstands (including all Computer Literacy stores in Silicon Valley) and is delivered to newsstands by a newsstand distributor. If you know a place that sells magazines that you feel should stock LJ, send e-mail to dist@ssc.com or have them call SSC at 206-782-7733. Getting LJ on newsstands is one of the best ways we can show the non-Internet crowd that Linux is for real. Subscriptions are: US$22/year U.S. US$27/year Canada US$32/year Foreign US$39/2 years U.S. US$49/2 years Canada US$54/2 years Foreign Linux Journal P.O. Box 85867 Seattle, WA 98145-1867 Fax: +1 206-782-7191 Tel: +1 206-782-7733 E-mail: subs@ssc.com URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/ Our public key (for encrypting your credit card number) is available by fingering info@ssc.com. Subscriptions begin with the *current* issue. Back issues are available (except for Issues #1, #3, #4 and #17, we're out) for $5 each, or $7 each non-North American airmail. ***Note: All funds should be in U.S. dollars*** Other questions/comments can be sent to: linux@ssc.com