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Re: [MacPerl] graphics with MacPerl

On 9/1/97 valere wrote:

>What? You mean I can't just ftp it and run it? Why "porting"? isn't perl
>just totally portable ? (modulo unix system calls)

It is my understanding that Perl was designed NOT to be portable in the
sense that various implementations are encouraged to use "native" aspects
of the particular OS. On the Mac this includes the ":" directory delimiter
and the 1904 (?) base for time calculations.

RR

__________________________________________________________________________
  Richard Rathe, MD                       mailto:rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu
  University of Florida                  http://www.med.ufl.edu/medinfo/  



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