Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Porting from OSX to OS9

At 18:38 -0700 2002.10.16, oorbee roy wrote:
>Although I'm a long time Perl (Unix) developer, I'm
>very new to the Mac world.  I'm currently developing a
>perl script on OSX and wish to port it to OS9.  I have
>had very little exposure to OSX (I love it) and even
>less exposure to OS9.

A few things:

* Read the perlport man page, which contains a wealth of useful information
about writing portable Perl programs.

* In brief, Mac OS users (as opposed to Mac OS X users) can run MPW and use
perl from the command line, and run the script on the command line
(although "./" will not work).  Also, man perlport has a method you can try
for calling the program with the MacPerl application, so a dialog box can
pop up asking for arguments.

* This list is for the porting of perl itself to Mac OS, not for the
porting of Perl programs.  Try the [email protected] list, or the
[email protected] list (http://lists.perl.org/).

Please direct followups to one of the other lists.  Thanks,

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