> I've written the following to sweep a folder and set creator/type for
> pdf
> files (coming off a Linux server). This works from MacPerl, but I
> really need
> to run it from OSX Perl. How do I get Perl to use MacPerl.pm, which
> @INC can't
> locate? ( #!/usr/bin/perl use MacPerl; ... ).
If you install MacPerl.pm in the "obvious" way, then it should be
found. Otherwise, if you install it in an alternate location, then you
can do:
use lib qw(/path/to/where/you/installed/it);
use MacPerl;
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Interestingly, the problem I
was trying to solve with MacPerl's SetFileInfo is still open. Once Perl set the
creator/type, the file was still not fully recognized as belonging to that
application (no icon, and not recognized by the Classic application).
It seems that the means for associating the creator/type with this
application (Acrobat 5) is either through the Get Info ("Opens with...") window (this
works in Jaguar), or by simply opening it first with the application (this works
in Panther). So for the moment, I'm relying on AppleScript to tell the
application to open the file to get it fully associated.
So my next question is: What is Acrobat doing when opening a file that
SetFileInfo isn't?
-Alan
