Re: [MacPerl] Executing MacPerl script on a PeeCee

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>My only thought offhand is that newlines might be messed up. - Chris

Chris is absolutely right! I was fooled by the fact that M$Word on the
PeeCee opened the transmitted x.pl file just fine. Apparently that piece of
software recognizes the Mac return convention and doesn't bother to say
anything about it. Doing a "save as" from Word on the PeeCee allowed the
script to execute.

Also: I had placed a test for the "MacOS" in my script and changed to "\r\n"
for the line terminator in my output files. That's wrong. Apparently perl on
the PeeCee puts out the right thing when you simply specify \n. That means
\n is the right terminator to use for output for all three systems. Just why
the perl parser doesn't recognize all three, as does M$Word, is a mystery
beyond my simple mind.

The right book is "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" by Randal L. Schwartz and
others published by - you guessed it - O'Reilly. Not quite MPP&E but still
$30 well spent.

Perl scripts on the PeeCee use the extension .plx and it's possible that if
I had sent the file as a .plx instead of a .pl, AND if perl had been
installed at the time, M$Outlook on the PeeCee would have fixed the
linefeeds as the file was received. At least my girlfriend thinks so. Files
sent as .txt have never exhibited the problem. I'll report when we have
tried again.

-->From the USA, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it.


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