From:	Joel Rees	Date:	Fri Jan 28 09:20:51 2005
Subject:	Install MacPerl on Freebsd

> I am try to write a script that will rename Macintosh files to windows 
> file
> name format.   I do not have access to a Macintosh computer.   Can 
> MacPerl,
> Mac::Files, and Mac::MoreFiles run on a FreeBSD system?

If it's just a matter of naming, you don't need Mac::Files and the like.

But I would guess what you want to do is actually use the file type 
info that would be available in the Mac HFS file system to determine 
the file extensions? There used to be packages available for that sort 
of thing, but I'm not sure if you can still find them. They never 
worked perfectly, as I recall. But it wouldn't be perl, it would be 
*nix. The utilities for installing netBSD or openBSD on the old Macs 
came with some utilities for moving only one fork into a BSD partition, 
but those are not scriptable by any means.

Hard to say what to suggest without more information. Old Macs with 
built-in ethernet and scsi are often really cheap on ebay, for 
instance. Likely to be easier to run the MacBSD on a Mac and have it 
ship things up the wire or save things onto a MS-DOS SCSI volume, or, 
if the files aren't big, onto an MS-DOS floppy.

--
Joel Rees
     even though much of what I do is not sensible
     it does make sense if you know why ...