[MacPerl Announcement] MacPerl 5.1.4r4 released

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

After some dramatical last minute developments, the application and MPW tool
packages of MacPerl 5.1.4r4, the first MacPerl release based on 5.004, are
now available on

ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch//software/platform/macos/perl/

The rest of the distribution should become available later this week.

5.1.4		05Oct97
 - Made Command-. more reliable and also added a menu command for it.
 - Expanded toolbox documentation considerably.
 - The MPW Tool distribution now simply installs on top of the application
   distribution, which makes it a lot smaller [Martin Heller].
 - Add %#s format to printf for Pascal strings.
 - Rewrote all toolbox interfaces to use strict; introduced a lot more structs;
   rewrote hash based structs to object based structs.
 - FindFolder.pl had lost its XFCN resource and thus would no longer work
   [Paul Schinder].
 - File::Copy::move would sometimes destroy the target file when
   the source file didn't exist.
 - Fixed treatment of paths starting with a space [Paul Schinder].
 - MacPerl::Pick is now context sensitive: In scalar context, picks
   a single item, in array context, picks multiple items
	[Brian Matthews]. Also fixed treatment of arrow keys.
 - Safe/Opcode modules now should work.
 - Compiled without DEBUGGING option, which should speed things up.
   This only affects the -D option, not -d.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
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