Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2004

MacPerl::SetFileInfo makes it easy to set normal type and creator
codes:
   #!/usr/bin/perl
   use strict;

There's a new Camel in town. ;-)
What is CamelBones?
In a nutshell, CamelBones is a Cocoa/Perl bridge. It allows you to
write GUI applications that use Apple's Cocoa library in Perl.

hello list,
I'm new, so please excuse me if my questions are obvious.
Here is what i want to do:
1. Open a file with Photoshop

I've run into a problem trying to script NetNewsWire with Mac::Glue,
I'm sure it's just a little thing that I'm missing, but I can't seem to
find it.  I've boiled the problem I'm having to the following script:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

Currently I'm using AppleScript to work on files and then
send them out to different folders on different servers.
But I'm running into problems where users don't know that
their file is finished because the icon doesn't appear in

I just installed  HTML::Mason on OS X v10.3.2 and other required
modules.
I am trying to run the following:
    % my $noun = 'World';

Dear folks,
after searching the archives and the web for an answer I still can't  a
solution to my task.
I need to access the resource fork of some Freehand8 files, namely the

I was doing a little hacking around with the AddressBook the other day,
and used PerlObjCBridge to write some glue code to use AddressBook.framework.
It strikes me that it'd be better to put these quick hacks on CPAN
instead of constantly rewriting glue code to use this and other ...

I've come up with an idea for an object oriented
module and am making it in order to learn a bit more
about objects and OOP. I've run into a strange problem
that I can't figure out why what's happening is

as a long time MacPerl user who just made the transition to MacOS X I am
a little confused: What is the difference between using MacPerl on MacOS
X and using Perl on MacOS X? I guess I am looking for help with using
Perl on MacOS X - am I in the right place at all?

I have a question about the following script:
use Term::ANSIColor;
print color("red on_white"), "Danger, Will Robinson!\n";
print color("red on_white"), "Danger, Will Robinson!\n";

This is probably not a mac specific perl problem, but I have a web app that
fires off a perl script which generates a temporary pdf file and then emails
it to the user. I have been using this syntax:
my $temp_pdf = "/tmp/reg_form$$.pdf";

Since we upgraded to Panther, we have been unable to install the BDB
module and the mysql module or even the Date::Simple module.
My buddy Dennis, is an serious hacker, and he was here till the wee
hours of

this was probably too much hidden in my reply, but saving a file in
UTF-16 (as opposed to UTF-8) created the following error for me:
[xxxxxxxx:~/Desktop] xxxxxx% chmod 755 helloWorld.pl
[xxxxxxxx:~/Desktop] xxxxxx% ./helloWorld.pl

I would like to be able to use bogofilter directly from within Mail.app
for a number of reasons, and because AppleScript doesn't have a concept
of pipes (do shell script can't handle input over 64kb), I'd like to
find a solution to run a call-back from the command line of the ...