Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / June 2006

OK, I've uploaded Mac-Carbon-0.75 to the CPAN.
    http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/29967
Go play with it, if you have an Intel Mac.  Let me know if you find
anything wrong, and let me know soon, since I have less than a week left

How do I write proper utf 8 characters to a file? I write only two  
characters, and they come out as four
garbage characters when I view the file in an editor.
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Thanks for all the input, I got a lot of small bugs fixed, in tests and
docs mostly, and a small one in code.  No major code changes, no
Intel-specific code changes.
The Intel box goes back to Apple in a few days, so ... test now!

    I used to be a Tcl/Tk-ist but this huge black hole that is Perl has  
sucked me in an unavoidable way ;)
I loved Jim Ingham & Ian Reid Wish (Tk Tcl shell interface) 'a la  
aqua'.  They did a very good job.  You can use all the Tk under an  

Hi y'all,
After lurking for over two years it seems to be the time to uncloak and
ask a little question.
I was trying to install Chris Nandors Mac::Growl on my Dual 1.8

Up until now, I have done all of my perl->AppleScript interfacing  
using osascript. I am planning on writing an script that does a lot  
of Scripting in OmniGraffle, and was wondering if anyone has any  
experience with the CPAN AppleScript packages that are available.  

I'm not exactly sure this is what happened but I can't think of  
anything else. After installing several packages from CPAN, my daily  
log maintenance began failing. After some investigation I found that  
'/etc/periodic/daily/500.daily' was getting an error from the '/usr/

I am unable to help myself out of this problem. My module cpan is always
complaining, when I issue an install command with errors like follows:
***
gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file

I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now  
Contact.  However the import feature does not see this file as it is  
ghosted.  My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator  
information.

My perl script generates pdf files, and opens them with Acrobat.
How can I wait until Acrobat closes the file, so I can delete it?
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"Home is not where you are born, but where your heart finds peace" -

I need to write some Excel files with ODBC access to a MySQL database.
I've used Spreadsheet::WriteExcel in the past for writing formulas,
formatting, etc., with no problems, but the ODBC connection is new to
me. I tried it manually (just opening a blank spreadsheet and ...

Sorry. This is the wrong list to ask this question, but it's the only
Mac list I belong to.
Yesterday I was told that a chip maker other than Intel will be
supplying chips for Macs sometime in the not too distant future. Is