Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / August 2005

For some reason, when I try to do "sudo cpan", it won't start up, and
generates this following message:
Terminal does not support AddHistory.
CPAN.pm panic: Lockfile /Users/lolajl/.cpan/.lock

I had posted this message earlier to the Perl Beginners group:
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Here's the situation:
Some dude working in my company needs a program that does this-

I just added a PC to my home network and was playing with
trying to access directories on my Mac OS X system and
suddenly my pop server quit working (qpopper). It had
been working fine for at least a year!

I develop my perl scripts on OSX but I need to be able to generate
executables for both OSX as well as windows. They won't need any graphical
stuff, just a double clickable file that will do its stuff.
Any ideas on what's the easiest way of doing this?

I am trying to automate a web page interaction and to figure out the  
initial interaction sequence, I have installed HTTP::Recorder and  
HTTP::Proxy, but the recorder fails to follow the login-in button due  
to a missing method called "query_param".  Any advice here?  Here is  

I'm interested in being able to perform simple edits on PDF files.
For example, I might want to be able to change the colors of some
characters and output the changed version.
If I had the ability to import and export PDF files as Perl data

Is it possible to get and/or set the file type and/or creator in  
plain Perl, on OS 10.4.x, without using /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo  
or /Developer/Tools/SetFile?
Thank you in advance for any idea.

Recently there was a change at work -- all http access now needs to
go through a proxy.
So if I have a script using LWP::UserAgent or similar, I have to add
    $UA->proxy( ['http'] , 'http://proxy.fake.com:8080' );