Re: [MacPerl] - Unix vs Mac file commands

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

"Douglas P. McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com> writes:
>>I just got MPW with Toolserver and am
>>curious how others on the list are using them with MacPerl.
>
>IMHO Apple made a mistake by not including MPW as a fundamental part of its
>operating system. Entirely too much time was spent hiding the internals of
>the Macintosh from "the rest of us." A whole legion of users thinks that
>there is no "DOS" command line interpreter for the Mac. False. It's just
>that Apple tries to keep it a secret. 

While I agree about the utter usefulness of MPW, especially combined with Perl,
the above might be a bit misleading: As opposed to MS-DOS and successors, there
is no command line interpreter built into MacOS, the entire MPW Script language
is implemented by MPW itself.

Matthias

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