Re: [MacPerl] libwww and MacPerl?

[John Irving <john@hyperconnect.com>]

At 3:54 PM -0400 7/21/97, Paul J. Schinder is rumored to have typed:

> John Irving <john@hyperconnect.com> writes:
> }Has anyone been able to successfully get libwww working with MacPerl? If
> }so, anything I should be aware of before attempting?
>
> However, you can download the MacPerl port of libwww-perl-5.10 from
> <ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/>
>
> }
> }As far as I know, libwww requires Data-Dumper, libnet, MD5, MIME-Base64 and
> }IO (perhaps others).
>
>  A MacPerl ready version of libnet is at the URL above. MD5 is optional,
> not required. The version of IO that comes with MacPerl is adequate.
> MIME-Base64 still includes Perl only code, so it's simply a matter of
> putting the *.pm into a folder named MIME.  Data Dumper is no longer
> required by libnet, but it also comes in a Perl only version (called
> Dumper.pm.NOXSUB).
>

Thanks for the pointers! I managed to download and install MacPerl and then
most of the above scripts/modules. Some very basic tests suggest that
everything is working.

Again, thanks for your help.

John




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John Irving
HyperConnect Online Communications
john@hyperconnect.com
http://www.hyperconnect.com/



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