Re: [MacPerl] beginner needs book recommendation and advice

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 16.10 -0500 1999.03.02, Andy Berkvam wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>
>> (One word of warning: since these books are written by Unix users,
>> some of the examples won't work as is under MacPerl.)
>>
>  I just found out about the Perl Power Tools project.  To quote the web
>page, "Our goal is quite simply to reimplement the classic Unix command
>set in pure Perl, and to have as much fun as we can doing so."  Looks like
>this project will allow most "backticked" commands to work on most (all?)
>platforms that perl can run on, including Macs.  Find more info at
><http://language.perl.com/ppt/>.

Well, with some serious modifications, in some cases.  Make no mistake,
these programs will be command line programs meant to be run in a shell and
sometimes a terminal app or console.  Some will even call out to other
programs (like awk, which calls a2p, the awk to perl translator).

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