Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / February 2005

Having just installed 5.8.6 into /usr/local/bin I'm coming across the usual 400 error when trying to use LWP in CPAN.
On 5.6.0 I just set ftp_int_passive to 1 in libnet.cfg but I can't find any corresponding file in 5.8.6.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,

Just a quick question. Is it possible to have a bunch of variables in a
separate file and then require that file in the script file? Let me
give you and example.
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    I'm doing a fresh install of my OS X 10.3 and am to the point where
I'm trying to
get DBD::mysl installed.  I found a website that gives good
instructions for OS X, but

After struggling with iPhoto in AppleScript for a while (and all
of a sudden realizing that a photo's date property is a string,
not a date object), I had to come back to Perl and DateTime. I
need to shift the times on thousands of images by a certain offset.

Where can I find printed docs on how to build external modules on MacOS
X?
For some reasons perldoc don't work correctly when piping output into
the lpr command.

I am trying to convert MacRoman encoded text to iso-8859-1. The script
below show what I am trying to do.
The input file, data.txt contains the following string:
Les éléphants sont arrivés. €

Hi all.  I'm having some difficulty dealing with packages like
PDF::API2; it's just too huge! This package has no man pages, just some
perldocs (perldoxen?), so I've been searching thru them over and over
and....over.

When I type:
kim% sudo gluemac /Applications/AddressBook.app
I get:
What is the glue name? [AddressBook]:

Is there a way to call the Summarize service from a Perl script?
Kim Helliwell
kimgh@mac.com
Homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/kimgh

I've been struggling with accessing email messages in a particular
account and mailbox, and this (and some other stuff I'm trying)
engenders a question:
What's the proper way to visit all of a list of objects that are

I just tried to install Mac::Glue, and even though there were no error
indications, /usr/bin/gluemac (among other things) did not get
installed.
The output claimed to be installing it, but it's not there...

I made the mistake of installing LWP before I read a snippet in the
http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/ch01.pdf
section 1.9
now my original head utility was overwritten by HEAD and I need

Hi,
I had a situation where I had to cycle power to my G5 Mac running Apache
1.3.3 OS X 10.3.7 today. After reboot, I found that Perl scripts no longer
reliably run via the web. I can get pages to load a few times, but then I

Hello list,
I have searched and searched and have just not been able to answer
this one. Does anyone know how to represent a boolean value with
PerlObjCBridge? I have tried a couple things and they have all failed:

Wow thanks for all the input! I'm slogging along with the Llama book,
and I have some MySQL (new to that too) stuff working. I'm concerned,
thought, that I'm creating a mess by installing modules and downloading
stuff. Likewise I've been using CPAN with no clue as to what I'm ...