Re: openfile

2001-04-01 Thread Randal Cox
I don't see what advantage this has over OS X's built-in "open" command. Typing % open -a /Applications/Foobar myfile will open myfile using application Foobar (assuming "/Applications/Foobar" is a valid path to the binary). I didn't know! Thanks... Randal

Re: MacPerl to OSX Perl

2001-04-01 Thread Ian Ragsdale
My guess is that it is a line endings problem - I get this error under most unix systems if I use a file with macintosh line endings. Can whatever editor you're using translate the line endings to unix? Ian --On Sunday, April 1, 2001 3:16 PM -0800 hciR nellA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iH i

Re: .gz uncompress problem with cpan shell

2001-04-01 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Cool, glad that suggestion helped. Forest On Sunday, April 1, 2001, at 07:21 PM, Wazop wrote: Hello, On Sunday, April 1, 2001, at 04:49 PM, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: I'm very new at this, so I may be off-base. Are you running the cpan shell as root? Right on! That was the problem!

Carbon apps on unix disk

2001-04-01 Thread Bill Stephenson
This is probably a stupid question but, do "Carbon" apps NOT run on OS X if the disk has been formatted for unix when OS X was installed? So far I have not abeen able to get either Appleworks or fetch to install since I reinstalled OS X with a unix disk format. Fetch complains that it can't

Re: Carbon apps on unix disk

2001-04-01 Thread Ian Ragsdale
Your definitions are correct, but carbon apps can come in two forms. If you are careful in writing your carbon app, and compile it in PEF format, it can run in OS 9 as well as OS X. If you compile into Mach-O, you can use some native services that you can't with PEF, and it will only run in OS

Why no Reply-To: Header?

2001-04-01 Thread Andrew Duncan
Hi folks, There could well be a good reason why messages from the list don't have a Reply-To header, so please don't take this as a complaint, but I'm curious as to what the story is. It seems that the list is managed with 'ezmlm', and I know nothing about it, but I guess the List-Post