Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2007

I've never used CPAN on my Mac before and hardly at all on other
machines ... in other words newbie warning.
Anyway, I want to use MySQL from Perl so I installed DBI, no
problems. Then I tried to install DBD::mysql but it fails. I get

I'm trying to understand how to use the Mac::Files NewAlias function.  
I have not found any code examples and I'm struggling.
The NewAlias function creates a filehandle. How do I create an alias  
file from the alias filehandle?

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get me started...
I want to write a perl script that can gather the following simple info:
    Has the screen blanker blanked the screen?
    What's the front-most application?

Well, I've finally given into peer pressure and created a MySpazz  
account and CamelBones group:
    <http://www.myspace.com/camelbones>
    <http://groups.myspace.com/CamelBones>

for some reason, X11 has a different version of @INC than reported with apple's terminal. if i run
perl -e 'foreach (@INC) { print "$_\n";}' with apple_terminal, i get
/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1

I downloaded and installed Encode-JIS2K-0.02.  Install log says that  
all tests were successful.  But when I do this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;