[MacPerl] SDF - How to set-up?

[Tom Fetherston <ranch1@earthlink.net>]

Hi all,

I was getting ready to do some more work on the POD mode for the Alpha
editor, when I revisited Larry Wall's Perl documentation page on the web.
It was pretty much unchanged, nothing has been added to the langugage,
there was however a reference to the fact that the page had been built from
a SDF file.

Folloeing the link, <http://www.mincom.com/mtr/sdf>, I found that SDF
stands for Simple Doocument Format, and is sort of POD on steroids, in fact
POD is one of the many formats that a SDF file can be translated into.

I been looking for something that would support literate programming on the
mac, and SDF is supposed to support this.

Anyway, the best thing is that this is that the system that works with is
written entirely in Perl.

However, the directions are only for Unix and windows:
    1.Unpack the distribution into a directory
    2.Set the SDFHOME environment variable
    3.Add the SDF scripts to your path
    4.Update the configuration files

One is easy enough (download and unzip with zip-it), baut can anyone help
me with the rest?

I know Perl well enough to write a short, one-shot utility, but this is is
a whole series of scripts.

Has anyone played with this? My intend is to write a SDF mode for alpha and
work out an easy inteface to the various perl scripts.

Tom



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