Re: [Boston.pm] file types in Mac OS X (& perl)

2003-02-04 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 09:58 PM, Beth Chaplin wrote: The problem: When Perl creates the text file, it does not get assigned the proper 'file type'. Instead of being recognizable by the Mac system as a text file, it has the file type '', and most Mac applications do not recognize it

[Boston.pm] file types in Mac OS X (& perl)

2003-02-04 Thread Beth Chaplin
I'm looking for help from anyone out there running Perl on a Mac OS X system: I have written a perl script that runs on my OS X system (through the terminal), and produces a text output file that is meant to be later read by a Mac application (Filemaker Pro, which imports the data from the file in

Re: [Boston.pm] file types in Mac OS X

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Nandor
There are two Perl modules for working with file types and creators. The first one, which I maintain, has been around on MacPerl for years, and has recently been ported to Mac OS X as part of the Mac::Carbon distribution. It is in the MacPerl module (named so for historical reasons) and the functi

Re: [Boston.pm] file types in Mac OS X

2003-02-03 Thread Paul Mison
On 02/02/2003 at 13:33 -0500, Beth Chaplin wrote: I have written a perl script that runs on my OS X system (through the terminal), and produces a text output file that is meant to be later read by a Mac application (Filemaker Pro, which imports the data from the file into a database). The proble

[Boston.pm] file types in Mac OS X

2003-02-02 Thread Beth Chaplin
I'm looking for help from anyone out there running Perl on a Mac OS X system: I have written a perl script that runs on my OS X system (through the terminal), and produces a text output file that is meant to be later read by a Mac application (Filemaker Pro, which imports the data from the file in