Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Okey..what next?

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 11:52 AM 3/20/00 Justin Shore <listuser@vinnie.ksu.ksu.edu> wrote:

> I'm glad someone asked this question before I asked it.  I had no idea
> that I had to convert all my perl scripts to Mac-style linebreaks
> before they'd work.  I was wondering what was up with them; they
> worked perfectly on my production machines (Linux).  Is there any way
> around the linebreak problem?  That's pretty damn annoying.  The whole
> reason behind installing MacPerl for me was so that I could test my
> scripts wo/ having to disturb my productions machines which are
> usually under a high load.  Someone has surely created a fix for this,
> at least I'd hope so.  Weird...

If you FTP file from your Linux machine to your Mac and back in text
mode, the ftp transfer will convert the line endings for you.

If you need to run files with unix line endings on the Mac, you can
start the run from within BBEdit (5.1 or greater, commercial version)
and it will detect the situation and insert some magic between you and
MacPerl to make the right thing happen, so you don't ever have to
convert the line endings on disk if you don't want to.

I remember hearing some rumblings about Perl and MacPerl not being so
picky about the line endings in your program in the future, but I could
be making it up too.

-- 
Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>

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