Re: [MacPerl] loving/hating MacPerl

["John K. Peterson" <jkpeters@acs2.byu.edu>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Mike Hammond wrote:

> >>1. I had such trouble with the latest version of Perl5 that i finally
> >>deleted it off my harddrive and went way back and reinstalled 418. I kept
> >>getting system crashes, I was repeatedly rebuilding my desktop and doing
> >>disk repairs with Norton.
> >
> >Hmm, does anybody share this experience? Constant crashes are definitely not
> >acceptable.
> 
> (Sheepishly,) I think I misunderstood something about "big". I'm
> understanding now I should have been running the version of MacPerl
> entitled "big". Is that so? If so, could that be the source of the problems
> I had?

I had the same problem with the 'big' Perl 5 app.  I'm running System
7.1.2, 8 meg, Centris 610.  I also had the little boxes instead of
command-key symbols in the menu (I think someone else mentioned that...).

John Peterson -- University Networking Services -- Brigham Young University
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