Re: [MacPerl] Need a Program

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 11:24 -0600 6/15/99, Doug McNutt wrote:
> Do you really have to use perl for some reason?
> Here are some (untested for typos) MPW commands to do what you need.

Portability?

So he can make a droplet?  Give it to someone else?

Space considerations? (why install MPW and use up 24 MB of hard disk space?)

Resume? Perl is, well,  Perl. (I do _not_ put MPW on my resume :-)

>
> directory "hard drive:"
> files -t 'XXXX' -r > temp
> count temp
> delete temp
> ##Actually I think you can pipe the output of files to count and avoid the
> temp file. I'm not much of a plumber.

At least put it into a script. If you need it once, you'll need it twice.
>
> If it makes you feel better you can do:
> alias ls files
> and just pretend you're using UNIX.

not... quite...  (;/

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