[MacPerl] FAQ additions

[Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>]

Some areas that get rehashed on this list that might profitably be
incorporated into the FAQ:

1a)  Why doesn't MacPerl handle Unix text files (or Unix line-endings, or
DOS line-endings)?
1b) Why doesn't MacPerl handle/translate Unix paths?  How can I work
around this?

(Note that I am not asking this right now; there have probably been more
than a hundred messages discussing these Qs in the last year, and more
than that over the years.  Please don't revive this!  :)  Send proposed
patches to Matthias, or modules to CPAN.


1c)  [Perhaps linked to answer of 1a.]  How can I convert Mac
line-delimiters to Unix to DOS, or mix and match?

(In digging through old messages, there were some fantastic one- to
five-liners to do this.  Thanks Chris and others!)


2.  How can I (quickly) install CPAN modules?  [Perhaps even a whole
section on CPAN--which are available for Mac, how can I get one Macified,
pointer to XS section, etc.]  Right now I believe the FAQ just points to
the main Perl5 FAQ, which is guaranteed overload and probably overkill.

cpan-mac, installme


3.  A much larger section on MacPerl CGI, or why _not_ MacPerl CGI--is
MacPerl threaded?  Why does it lock up, lose data, whatever?  What about a
32K data limit?

While I will probably tackle the other parts of these FAQ questions if
someone else doesn't beat me to it, the CGI section I won't touch due to
lack of knowledge.  Someone else will have to knock this out.

4.  (Recently this has popped up several times)  How can I print to a
networked or Postscript printer from MacPerl?   

5.  How do create a runtime that "use"s other modules?

6.  Will MacPerl be ported to MacOS X?

7.  Can I access an {Oracle|Sybase} database on a Unix system through a
MacPerl client script?  (This is related to the
which-CPAN-modules-are-available question.)


The FAQ mentions using other editors; does it mention how to change this
in MacPerl?



In fact, if we were really clever, perhaps we could automatically generate
FAQ candidates from this list.  Any subject line repeated more than, say,
seven times would be dumped into the bin, or perhaps the whole thread
would be bundled up and dumped into the candidate bin.  It would require
human intervention to decide if it were worthy of FAQ-hood.  But the FAQ
question might be gleaned by looking for question marked sentences in the
first post.

In addition, there have been some jewel snippets from Chris Nandor and
others.  Perhaps some day the MacPerlFAQ will grow so large that the
QuickSnippets will be separate from the FAQ proper.  Many of the current
pieces of the FAQ are such snippets.


I will help with these FAQ items, but right now the FAQ seems split
between the old FAQ 2.6/2.7 and the FAQ-O-Matic.  When will they be
combined?



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MattLangford 



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