Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / February 2006

I am using PerlMagick to parse a TIFF file as I need to extract some
information from the header section. I can get Tags like Make and Model, but
I need to get some of the others (specifically Host Computer).... The
information can be extracted using ImageMagick's identify -verbose, ...

I have a perl script which enables users to upload a jpg file to my  
webserver from their browser. However, I'd like to reformat the  
uploaded jpeg to a certain pixel width and height so that it fits in  
with my webpage template (and also to avoid massive files being  

Is there a way for me to monitor a particular window for a change (in  
OS X)?  Maybe interacting with AppleScript?
Thanks!

Is there a way to fax a document using the built-in Mac OSX (10.3) fax
feature with perl?
I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my
humble opinions ;)

As I understand it, in C, if I open (create) a file and want to lock
it, I should pass in the O_EXLOCK flag at the same time, otherwise,
I've got a race condition, another process could potentially lock the
file after I've created it, but before I've locked it.

Doing an early problem (reading, reversing and printing a list of
strings read from input) in the Llama Book, 4th Ed., I wrote:
   #!/usr/bin/env perl
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