Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / May 2004

I just found out about this list; maybe someone here will have the glue
wisdom needed to answer the question I just posted in my journal...
Why does this work:
  tell application "iCal"

I've been playing around with CPAN, to get some modules installed.
Unfortunately, something seems to be not working.  Perhaps it was
because I tried to install LWP before its dependencies.  Or it could
be that the CPAN update failed.  But anyway, the "make" section is

Macintouch is showing an AS script:
    http://www.macintouch.com/#notesandtips
I've never been comfortable with AS, so I'm thinking about installing
it to see how it works, then re-writing it in perl, and maybe even

I recently got a new(er) computer, and I did a fresh install of
Jaguar and Perl, etc. on it.  Unfortunately, I'm having a very basic
problem, and I'm not finding
guidance online for it.

I've had problems for a while with Mac OS X Server and CPAN.  I've
never had a clean install of the CPAN bundle, so anything I try to
install through CPAN also has problems or fails.
I just tried to re-install the CPAN bundle and I got the following

Thanks to some of you, I have been using psync to do my backups now for
a few weeks
and like it very much.  One thing that kind of bothers me is that it
tells me it is

macosx 10.2.6
perl 5.8.0
hello
out of many

I'm still extremely new to Perl, and was wondering if some
of you might mind taking a peek at the code below and
telling me if there's anything that could make it better or
more efficient?

I've created a GraphicsKit package for the "Fat Camel" package, and  
uploaded it to SourceForge. As a reminder - these are Perl modules and  
the C libs they depend on for the Perl 5.8.4 distribution included in  
the CamelBones "Fat Camel" package.

I am writing a solving function.   You pass it the name of a function
and it
calls the functions many times until it finds the value that returns
zero.  How would

This sips application sounds interesting. Where do you get it? I'm
running OS X 10.3.3, but "man sips" produces nothing. I looked at
   http://www.apple.com/applescript/imageevents/
but I couldn't find anything to download. A search for "sips" at

i have some difficulty with a rather simple loop and simple RegExp:
please try the following code two times - one with no command line
arguments and one with a true argument [the latter call will reverse the
sorting of the hash keys]

I've been using the CPAN module to install stuff for some time now and
it always ends up using the 'ftp -n' option as
the modules LWP and Net don't appear to be working. Has anyone else
noticed this? There is a sample output at the

Background:
I'm using grap(1) and pic(1) to generate some graphs and diagrams.
Using groff(1) and ps2pdf(1), I'm getting nice-looking results on
paper and in PDF viewers such as Preview.  Unfortunately, I don't

Excuse me if this question is repetitive.
I need to instal the DBI and DBD modules on my MacOSX 10.3.3 with Perl 5.8.1
and ever get errors.
Any can help me please.