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

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

Jim Correia wrote:

>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 just did this and it works great!

I opened a file on my Linux box from within BBEdit on my Mac (opening 
files via FTP rocks!).  I checked and as expected it had Unix 
newlines.

Using the [camel-picture] menu, exported to cgi on my Mac web server 
and it ran.

Scientists always run controls:

I then did a "Save As..." onto my Mac.  This preserved the Unix 
newlines.  I switched to MacPerl and opened it.  As expected, it 
looked bad (one run-on line with little box characters.)  I saved it 
as a cgi anyway, and as expected, it failed.

</Control>

One suggestion:

When I did the export, it replaced the filename with a random number 
which is less than wonderful but ok, but it also added by default the 
.acgi file suffix.

.acgi is often bad thing.  The default should, IMHO, be .cgi

Again, for the cognoscente, this is no biggie, you just ignore the 
suggested filename, but I think it is the wrong default as it sends 
the naive down a dangerous path.

-David-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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