Change 23963: Mac OS Classic vs Mac OS X clarications

Change 23963 by rgs@marais on 2005/02/12 16:26:47

	Mac OS Classic vs Mac OS X clarications
	by Sherm Pendley

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq3.pod#81 edit
... //depot/perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod#22 edit
... //depot/perl/pod/perlopentut.pod#22 edit
... //depot/perl/pod/perlrun.pod#130 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/pod/perlfaq3.pod#81 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlfaq3.pod
--- perl/pod/perlfaq3.pod#80~23509~	Wed Nov 17 02:22:52 2004
+++ perl/pod/perlfaq3.pod	Sat Feb 12 08:26:47 2005
@@ -819,8 +819,10 @@
 interpreter, NT people can use: C<SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PL> to let them
 run the program C<install-linux.pl> merely by typing C<install-linux>.
 
-Macintosh Perl programs will have the appropriate Creator and
-Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the Perl application.
+Under "Classic" MacOS, a perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
+Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the MacPerl application.
+Under Mac OS X, clickable apps can be made from any C<#!> script using Wil
+Sanchez' DropScript utility: http://www.wsanchez.net/software/ .
 
 I<IMPORTANT!>: Whatever you do, PLEASE don't get frustrated, and just
 throw the perl interpreter into your cgi-bin directory, in order to

==== //depot/perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod#22 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
--- perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod#21~22735~	Fri Apr 23 03:11:23 2004
+++ perl/pod/perlmodinstall.pod	Sat Feb 12 08:26:47 2005
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 =item *
 
-B<If you're on a Unix or Linux system,>
+B<If you're on a Unix or Unix-like system,>
 
 You can use Andreas Koenig's CPAN module
 ( http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/CPAN )
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
 
 =item *
 
-B<If you're using a Macintosh,>
+B<If you're using a Macintosh with "Classic" MacOS and MacPerl,>
 
 
 A. DECOMPRESS

==== //depot/perl/pod/perlopentut.pod#22 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlopentut.pod
--- perl/pod/perlopentut.pod#21~22301~	Fri Feb 13 13:11:25 2004
+++ perl/pod/perlopentut.pod	Sat Feb 12 08:26:47 2005
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
 NULs within a valid filename.  Most systems follow these conventions,
 including all POSIX systems as well as proprietary Microsoft systems.
 The only vaguely popular system that doesn't work this way is the
-proprietary Macintosh system, which uses a colon where the rest of us
+"Classic" Macintosh system, which uses a colon where the rest of us
 use a slash.  Maybe C<sysopen> isn't such a bad idea after all.
 
 If you want to use C<< <ARGV> >> processing in a totally boring

==== //depot/perl/pod/perlrun.pod#130 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlrun.pod
--- perl/pod/perlrun.pod#129~23907~	Mon Jan 31 03:17:26 2005
+++ perl/pod/perlrun.pod	Sat Feb 12 08:26:47 2005
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@
 
 =item Macintosh
 
-A Macintosh perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
-Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the perl application.
+Under "Classic" MacOS, a perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
+Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the MacPerl application.
+Under Mac OS X, clickable apps can be made from any C<#!> script using Wil
+Sanchez' DropScript utility: http://www.wsanchez.net/software/ .
 
 =item VMS
 
End of Patch.