RE: macosx list?

2003-02-11 Thread Heather Madrone
You might try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- Thank you, Heather Madrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.madrone.com

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-06 Thread Heather Madrone
://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg > >Curiouser and curiouser... > >I tried `curl http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg' > >And got the same binary text d/l (and had to crash `terminal' to stop it :-( I think you need to use the -o flag with a filename as an

Re: Help installing DBD:mysql on Mac OS X 10.2

2003-02-04 Thread Heather Madrone
ybe it would help to read a good overview of how Unix works. Does anyone know of such a thing? * I think "all," really, but I'm not sure about Posix et al. -- Heather Madrone , curmudgeonly old crank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com If we're not having fun, we're not doing it right.

Re: where to put things?

2003-01-18 Thread Heather Madrone
This is drifting further off-topic all the time. I hope that some of you find it amusing. At 1:47 AM -0800 1/18/03, Rich Morin wrote: >At 6:52 PM -0800 1/17/03, Heather Madrone wrote: >>I don't see any Unix daemons on my machine (running in single-user >>mode) that aren'

Re: where to put things?

2003-01-17 Thread Heather Madrone
go, there must have been 50 ways to get a root shell on any machine where you lacked the root password. Unix, in general, was about as secure as a sieve. -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com If we're not having fun, we're not doing it right.

Re: Now emacs overwrites scrollback buffer?

2003-01-16 Thread Heather Madrone
bon emacs, which runs as a gui in its own window. It also has the advantage of being up-to-date and of having a few features that are unavailable in the shell version (such as color-coding). You can download the binary here: <http://www.mindlube.com/developer/> -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com If we're not having fun, we're not doing it right.

Re: More 5.8.0 / Jaguar / Fink madness

2003-01-12 Thread Heather Madrone
At 4:42 PM -0600 1/12/03, Puneet Kishor wrote: >On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:18 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > >>At 3:26 PM -0500 1/12/03, John Siracusa wrote: >>>On 1/12/03 3:04 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: >>>>I feel a little antiquated on this forum, using pe

Re: More 5.8.0 / Jaguar / Fink madness

2003-01-12 Thread Heather Madrone
At 3:26 PM -0500 1/12/03, John Siracusa wrote: >On 1/12/03 3:04 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > > I feel a little antiquated on this forum, using perl under emacs and >> installing my CPAN modules one at a time by hand, but, hey, it >> works. > >You're illustrating

Re: Another Perl 5.8 Problem

2003-01-12 Thread Heather Madrone
ot; to your .cshrc. If you want to fix it for all guis, you need to add the following to your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist: LC_ALL C If you just want to fix it in emacs, you can set the locale in your .emacs. -- Heather

Re: More 5.8.0 / Jaguar / Fink madness

2003-01-12 Thread Heather Madrone
al people recommended it, but I looked over what they had to offer (and listened to people on this list having nothing but trouble with the way fink did things) and decided to stick with what I know. I feel a little antiquated on this forum, using perl under emacs and installing my CPAN modules

Re: Fixing font spacing in Terminal.app

2003-01-07 Thread Heather Madrone
ws 95, 98, or NT. OTOH, I stuck Perl 5.8 in /usr/local, and I've had no difficulty with it whatsoever. -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.

Re: request for Terminal.app

2003-01-05 Thread Heather Madrone
>I would be deeply appreciative if someone could send me a copy >of a 10.2 Terminal.app or point me to a location where I could >download one. Thanks to David Hand and Ian Ragsdale for a quick response on this. Running shell commands from emacs gets old fast. -- Heather Madron

request for Terminal.app

2003-01-05 Thread Heather Madrone
d download one. Thanks in advance. -- Heather Madrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.madrone.com

carbon emacs and OSX upgrades

2002-12-23 Thread Heather Madrone
The most recent OSX upgrade failed to break carbon emacs. This is exciting news for the emacs-addicted as the previous several OSX upgrades did break it. Apparently the CVS source code change was enough to keep emacs from breaking every time -- Heather Madrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-24 Thread Heather Madrone
side of the house quietly drops them in any file manipulation, but most Mac-native applications depend on them. If Apple doesn't want to give up its own peculiar file formats, then they ought to fix their Unix so it handles Macintosh files sensibly. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.

Re: migration successful

2002-11-22 Thread Heather Madrone
ime I visited. It now offers useful advice on handling the more cryptic error messages. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.

Re: migration successful

2002-11-21 Thread Heather Madrone
At 06:31 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, David Wheeler wrote: >On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:21 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: >>Perhaps it doesn't look because I've been launching emacs >>from the dock. At some point, I'll look further into it, >>but right now my

Re: migration successful

2002-11-21 Thread Heather Madrone
At 05:40 PM 11/21/2002 -0800, David Wheeler wrote: >On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > >>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

migration successful

2002-11-21 Thread Heather Madrone
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.

Re: unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-19 Thread Heather Madrone
At 05:55 PM 11/19/2002 -0700, Doug McNutt wrote: >At 16:30 -0800 11/19/02, Heather Madrone wrote: >>I've already encountered a few text file anomalies on OS X. Most GUI applications >>seem to default to Mac-style text files (linefeeds only), > >I think that's retur

unix or mac-style text files?

2002-11-19 Thread Heather Madrone
I've already encountered a few text file anomalies on OS X. Most GUI applications seem to default to Mac-style text files (linefeeds only), but shell programs such as vi do not handle Mac-style text files gracefully. Is perl on the Mac going to care whether source files are Mac-style or Unix-st

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers)

2002-11-18 Thread Heather Madrone
or 2 or 3 days. I also got the developer tools unpacked, so the Darwin shell is starting to look a bit more like home. Thanks for the pointer to fink. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-18 Thread Heather Madrone
At 11:29 AM 11/19/2002 +1100, Ken Williams wrote: >On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: >>Heather Madrone wrote: >>>Most of my career was spent as a C/C++ systems programmer. >>>The damage I can do with a command line as root is not

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Heather Madrone
At 10:38 AM 11/17/2002 -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: >Heather Madrone wrote: >>At 03:29 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, William H. Magill wrote: >>>We're saying much of the same thing, however, this problem which you describe is >not an OS or vendor level problem and

Re: hard links on HFS+ (now even further off topic...)

2002-11-17 Thread Heather Madrone
g. Protect the servers, sure, but don't wall the users off from their own systems so they have to call ops in every time they insert a CD. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers (was: mac-toolbox))

2002-11-14 Thread Heather Madrone
At 09:45 PM 11/14/2002 -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote: Two possibilities. >1. You're used to some version of make which does cpan installs? > >sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell >install xxx I'm used to ActivePerl's ppm, which looks and feels a lot like ftp. No need to make anything. Unix-styl

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers)

2002-11-14 Thread Heather Madrone
At 12:46 PM 11/15/2002 +1100, Ken Williams wrote: >On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Heather Madrone wrote: >> >>At 10:44 PM 11/14/2002 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>>Switch, whether from Mac OS 9 or Win32, definitely ain't happening here :-( >> >>I

Re: locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers (was: mac-toolbox))

2002-11-14 Thread Heather Madrone
At 09:59 PM 11/14/2002 -0500, Sherm Pendley wrote: >On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > >>I haven't yet been able to figure out how to get the carbon build of >>emacs (a gui emacs) to import the locale so that the perl debugger >&

locale in carbon emacs (was: OS X Installed numbers (was: mac-toolbox))

2002-11-14 Thread Heather Madrone
Hi, I'm Heather Madrone, and I just signed onto this list this morning. At 10:44 PM 11/14/2002 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: >Switch, whether from Mac OS 9 or Win32, definitely ain't happening here :-( I just got a Powerbook a week ago, and I'm so disgusted with it that I'