As of 2pm today, I've managed to successfully run all of my perl programs on the Mac. I'm estimating that it took me about 8 hours total, including reading documentation (like this list), and installing perl, emacs, development tools, and CPAN modules.
I spent a couple of hours today changing global declarations, allowing for Macintosh-style files, and testing my scripts. Perl 5.8 is somewhat stricter than ActivePerl, so I also had to fix a few other minor details in some of my packages. All in all, my perl programs ported beautifully. The only Macintosh-style files I have to use are Eudora mailboxes, so I was able to isolate treatment of that issue to a couple of subroutines in a couple of different scripts. I decided to just dither $/ rather than implementing a more general solution. Thanks to everyone on this list for all their helpful suggestions. I still haven't managed to get emacs to import the locale correctly. It doesn't appear to read any of the profiles before launching. I think I'm going to need to do it in .emacs, but I haven't looked into it in greater detail. And more questions: Does anyone have _Mac OS X for Unix Geeks_ (O'Reilly, US $24.95) by Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman? It has a great title, but I've had mixed experiences with O'Reilly books. If you have it or have seen it, is it worth the money? Also, someone recommended a Mac system administrator's list. I'd like to join a Mac list where I could ask questions about interfacing gui apps to shell apps, which appears to be less straightforward than I might like. Any suggestions for finding such a list? Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.
