Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / April 2004

Okay, one more that had me curious, from the configure script --
    vfork() found.
    Perl can only use a vfork() that doesn't suffer from strict
    restrictions on calling functions or modifying global data in

My experience is that this kind of thing tends to lead to dead code or
endless loops. Do I need to dig in and find the macro declaration and
see if I can fix it?
    warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data

I'm new on perl.
I need to separate a huge file to small files.  It has three columns.
If first column is a number , use this number as a file name (i. e.,
260.dat and 300.dat for following sample), and then writing column 2 and

Thanks all for the help on the mail question a few days back. That's
fixed. Now I've run into another problem. I'm trying to copy a file on
a local network (off a PC) to my Mac. But when the script is called
from within cron, it seems that the script doesn't run. The cron looks

i'm working on perl.
i need to download webpages from the internet and
analyze them,which i'm unable to do with perl.
Please help me.

I try to install the Image::Magick module. ImageMagick itself was installed by a TeX distribution (gwTeX), and I found:
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  admin   476 22 Mar 12:15 Magick++
-rw-r--r--   1 root  admin   389  7 Feb 16:00 Magick++.h
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 10 Nov 00:26 ...

I'm having a devil of a time with something that should be very easy. I'm
using mod_perl and CGI::Application for some pokey stuff, and my scripts run
just dandy in a CGI environment, but outputs absolutely nothing in my
mod_perl setup.

This morning I installed the latest version of perl/tk (804.27). After
the install
I noticed a folder named "man" in my root directory.
The man folder contained a "man1" and a "man3" folder. Each of these

I'm trying to install wxPerl v0.18.
I just installed wxMac successfully.
I ran "wxPerl Makefile.pl" successfully after I followed the
instructions in install.txt:

I while back I wrote about assisting a neighboring school district with some
perl scripts I had written to allow teachers to easily make web pages.
Thanks very much to everyone who gave such good advice.  That really helped.
Now we are actually in the process of getting the scripts ...

For my wedding, I made an AppleWorks database containing the names of
all the wedding guests, their addresses, emails, and so on.  Now I want
to merge that info back into Address Book.
Anyone have recommendations for how to do this nicely?  I thought about

On Apr 17, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Chris Devers wrote:

The other way around. The odd numbered releases are the development

slice syntax  isn't deprecated or anything is it? Don't see it
mentioned in O'Reilly's Nutshell or in the Cookbook's section on arrays.
(Sorry about the not-really-topical noise.)

I pass a URL
<http://www.nwSufis.org/contactSpecificRep.html?
who=JohnDoe@comcast.net>
to an HTML page, which has:

Here is the goal.  I want to launch another application from which I can get
the status, stdin, and stdout after the application closes.  Will the
following code work for the general case of applications that do not need
additional input and will not hang?