Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / June 2004

As I recall, on OS 9 and earlier files sent to a printer were stored in
a hidden directory until printed. Does OS X do something similar, and
if so, where does it put these files?
Thanks,

I have a program that I am writing on Mac OS X.  It might need to run
on OS 9, but I can probably avoid that.
I will state up front that i prefer Linux, mainly because I know it
better.  (And I find the way the Mac does things to be totally alien to

here is a short Perl program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#use Mac::Glue;
use MacPerl;

This may be a frequently-asked question, but I've got installed
modules which CPAN says are "up to date" but Perl can't find.
@INC contains:
  /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level

A guy in my office just got a new G5 delivered. I asked to borrow his
Developer Tools CD because I've mislaid mine.
Surprisingly, there's no such thing. New G5s come with two DVDs and I
couldn't find the Dev Tools anywhere in them. The Help, when I

Hi, I have just downloaded Camelbones 0.2.3 and am having a stab at using
it. (on OSX 10.3.4
Firstly, I have upgraded my perl to 5.8.4, so the instructions say to build
the Camelbones frameworks. However, it tells me to edit GNUmakefile.perl,

how can i make a Perl droplet (A Perl script that processes files or
folders dropped onto it) fast and easily?
Thanks for any help!
Ingo

I'm a little unclear about which version of Perl I have, and/or which
version of Perl is executed when I run scripts.
If I do
  perl -v

Hello folks. I was wondering if somebody could help me out and let me know
how to solve this problem.
I am trying to write an interactive script that prompts the user to specify
a path to a DMG file on their system. It seems that once a file is inputted

I'm a little reluctant to even ask, because I'm sure these questions
get asked very often here, but I have a problem with installing a
module, HTML::Parser.
I have Panther, I have Dev Tools, Perl 5.8.0, I tried using CPAN and