Re: Absolute Novice (Mac Tiger) Needs Help

Scot Kamins <kamins@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are other problems associated with using Perl & Terminal in MacOS
X - Tiger having to do with permissions. I guess the world isn't simple.

Well, I'm using Perl and Terminal in MacOSX Tiger and permissions work
in the normal unix way for me. What is the problem you've encountered?

Another possibility I see is to use MacPerl under the Classic (System 9)
Environment and learn how to translate line terminators

Why make life hard for yourself when Tiger does everything normally?

If what we've learnt elsewhere in this thread about how duff MacPerl's
IO layer is true, then you'll only be teaching yourself a warped view of
how Perl should work. So unless you actually need your code to be
portable, it doesn't seem worth learning MacPerl.

before I move the scripts to HTML (my ultimate application).

Not sure what you mean by moving them to HTML. Do you mean move them to
a web server environment where they generate HTML?

These problems don't exist in MacPerl,

Eh? What do you mean? MacPerl is the *cause* of these portability
problems!

It's all a great learning experience!

That's one way of putting it. ;-)
I'd call it pain and suffering.

--
James Taylor
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