Re: [MacPerl] File reading ?'s

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 05.20 -0500 1998.06.12, Jeremy Lee wrote:
>on 6/12/98 1:09 AM , Paul J. Schinder  wrote:
>>[snip]
>>}
>>} I d/l'd a lot of the MPPE book, and it has some good stuff in it.  If I
>>} had known about it before, I would definitely gone for it over the
>>} "Dummies" book.  But it still doesn't talk about the Toolbox calls at all
>>} (or not enough).  It still refers you to the Inside Mac books...
>>
>>When you see Inside Macintosh, you'll realize there's no way that they can
>>be condensed into a small book.  If you're not comfortable with the Camel,
>>you're *really* not going to be happy with any part of Inside Macintosh...
>
>I was able to interpolate some of the information in the Inside Mac books
>to something that I understand.  It's all in there, I guess, it's a
>matter of knowing what you are looking at.

Yeah.  It just takes some work.  Imagine the Camel book with full
information about using Tk and DBI and XS.  Yuck.  Maybe more of this can
be documented in a more Perl way in the future, but certainly not all of
it, not very easily.  :)

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