At 01:10 +0100 9/15/09, Mine wrote: >Hi Doug, > >Thanks for the info, but I think this possibly way out side my level of >experience. >Would what you have suggested allow get_iplayer find the path to Perl 5.10.1 >when I try to run get_iplayer from the terminal? > >If it does then I don't fully understand your instructions. >I assume mkdir $HOME/.MacOSX creates a directory. I tried it but could not >find the directory. When I used cat > $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist in the >Terminal, it seemed to hang. > >When you say "paste the text of the new file here" what text do you mean?
cat, used that way is waiting for you to paste the text onto the Terminal screen. The text will become the contents of the environment.plist file. The problem is that Apple takes pleasure in making things difficult for users who might be able to muck something up. Those leading dots typically identify files that are private to the system. You can see dotted files with the unix command "ls -a" for list all. cat stands for concatenate which reads standard input, the terminal screen, and writes to standard out which the > directs to a file. You use control-D to terminate the input. I also used cat to display my environment.plist file. You can see the command that immediately precedes the text. But remember that you do have to edit the copy of my file to meet your needs. It is likely that you need only the PATH part but you should edit that so that the first directory, before the first separating colon, is the one that perl 5.10 is in. You probably don't want my personal bin directory but you might want to have a PERL5LIB directory which could also contain modules that would be found wherever perl came from. The /bin and /usr/bin items are pretty much required. cat, for instance, gets found that way. The file format is xml. Entries are in pairs of lines <key> defines the name and <string> declares the corresponding value. You might well have a text editor, bbedit or text wrangler (its free cousin) come to mind, that would have no problems dealing with directories whose names start with a dot. That would be fine in place of unix tool cat. You could also use Apple's plist editor but I suspect it would confuse you more than it would help. I dislike it. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--
