Re: [MacPerl] oops!

[dha@panix.com (David H. Adler)]

>>>>> I install MacPerl5 on my Mac (performa 6115cd, system 7.5.3, 16MB
>>>>>ram), and
>[snip]
>>Also, as mentioned above, I don't know for sure if I have a math
>>coprocessor or not. Does anyone out there know what the story is for a
>>6115?
>
>I don't know the 6115, but it sounds as a PPC and as such is does floating
>point arithmetics in native applications, but not in emulating a 68K.
>MacPerl is native, but probably make some things (or ask the system
>software to do something) in emulation mode. In this case your problems
>should however disappear if you install "software FPU" (share ware, at
>info-mac I think), so doing this could help isolating the problem
>
>hope this helps
>Christian

Thanks for the idea! Good one!

Unfortunately . . . it didn't work.

I installed Software FPU, installed MacPerl5 again, and it still won't open
due to the "unexpected error". Maybe it needs the powermac version of SFPU,
but I have a little trouble seeing spendin $20 for a program I'll use
relatively rarely (and that I don't know will do what I need it to before
paying!)

Also, does anyone know for sure if MacPerl has any non-native elements?
(Matthias?)

Back to square one . . .

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