[MacPerl] Re: Welcome to mac-perl

[Terry Lynch <mtnweb@goodnet.com>]

At 8:46 PM -0700 12/26/96, Majordomo@iis.ee.ethz.ch wrote:
>Welcome to the MacPerl mailing list! If you are a new subscriber to the list,
>I would be interested to know:
>
>- How you learned about the existence of MacPerl

On the internet somewhere, maybe reading about MacHTTP a few years ago. Am still very new with Perl.

>- Whether you received your copy by ftp or by CD

ftp

>- Whether you are using the MPW tool or the application

application

>- what you are planning to use Perl for

Text processing of very large text files that will be imported into a database. These are files for a book database to be used in FMPro and in a WWW bookstore. Also scripts of various kinds to help with receiving book orders on a UNIX web server.

>
>And now, have fun using MacPerl!

Okay!


Terry