Re: [MacPerl] Digest and CGI details...

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

munroe@acornsw.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
>1. Is there a digest of this list published?  So far Macjordomo says not...

No. Nobody here has time to deploy & test a solution.

>2. Is there, somewhere, a detailed (or even NOT so detailed) description of
>configuring web* to use Perl as a CGI engine?  I've spent the best part of
>6 hours looking and haven't come up with one yet.  (Book suggestions
>appreciated here too...)

I'd like to know the answers to that, too. I've decided last week to stop
answering personal e-mail about Perl CGIs and send a Mini-FAQ instead, but the
FAQ is currently much too small.

>3. Is MacPerl multithreaded now?

No. No timeline, either.

>4. If not, there was some discussion of an OSA version of MacPerl that
>could run underneath Frontier.  What's the status of that relationship?

Available in prerelease form on ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/Beta/
To be released soon (October 96).

Matthias

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