Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / March 2007

I'm still new to Perl and was just curious if the code below is ok to use.  Also, can someone direct me to more
information about file::find?  I'd like to know if -d means directory (I assume it does) as well as -f and other
options that may apply.  Basically, I want to loop thru ...

I'd like to run a daily backup script on my laptop, but I'd like it to
ask permission first. I'm wondering what is the best way to do this. I
thought I would have the script open Terminal.app and use STDIN/OUT? If
so, what is the recommended way to do this? IPC::Open? One of the Mac ...

I'm learning GUI programming with Perl on OS X, and I had a few questions:
1. Is CamelBones the only option for developing a native Perl GUI on OS
X? Does anyone use wxPerl, or Tcl::Tk (to get access to native Aqua Tk)?
I'm not interested in Perl/Tk because it's X11-based.

What is a good package for extracting text from a PDF file? For example I get monthly PDF reports from E*Trade, an online broker. It would be very convenient if I could access this data from Perl. Right now, I can extract data by copying and pasting into a text file, but I'd like ...

You all know I've been on this list for a long time, and I've asked the
most stupid questions of anyone here, so keep that in mind when reading
the following (I have a reputation to keep ;)
I've been wondering about this for quite awhile and thought I'd finally

What is CamelBones?
CamelBones is a Cocoa / Perl bridge for Mac OS X. Like most bridged,
CamelBones is bidirectional - It makes Perl accessible from Objective-C,
as well as making Cocoa accessible from Perl.  You can write a native

perl 5.8.8 parallel build in /usr/local, botched it a couple of times  
trying to get it to pull in expat and tie it in to apache 2, I  
finally gave up on apache 2, then on expat.
Now, when I try to run certain things, I get this: