Re: [MacPerl] new user help pls re filesize

[Charles Albrecht <albrecht@gate.net>]

>per below from Charles A. (and others thanks everyobe for all your kind
>responses)...now that I received these pluggins, can someone tell me how I
>can tell they are working...at least the ones which are apropos to BBeditLite
>
>>The package is available at <http://pobox.com/~bradh/bbedit>"

George,

We will assume that you have placed these plugins in BBEdit Lite's 
"BBEdit Plug-ins" folder with your other plugins.  And that you 
have removed "Perl Filters" and "Perl Palette", which do not 
work with the Lite version of BBEdit.  Upon a fresh start of 
BBEdit Lite, the following commands will have been added to 
your Tools menu:

  Check Perl Syntax
  Edit MacPerl Script
  Run File with MacPerl
  Run MacPerl
  Run MacPerl Front
  Shuck

To tell whether they're working, use them.  Open a BBEdit Lite window, 
type a simple perl script, like:

  #!perl -w
  print "hello world\n";

And select "Run MacPerl" from the Tools menu.  If another 
BBEdit window opens up, with the text "hello world" in it, 
you've succeeded.  

You never interact directly with the MacPerl application (the 
exception is "Run MacPerl Front", which explicitly brings MacPerl 
to the front and displays the output in MacPerl's window).

The documentation that comes with the plugins explains in a great 
level of detail what each one does.


I should point out that if your follow-up question is, "but I want 
to save this whole 200 KB script as a droplet or as a CGI script," 
then the answer is somewhat more involved.  I won't go into it now, 
for the sake of streamlining the discussion.  (And because I'm 
certain others can offer a more complete treatment than I.)


-Charles

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