Re: [MacPerl] out of memory

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>
>I'm writing a cgi script and now,
Jean-Francois Jobidon, <jfjobidon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> it is impossible to open it with macPerl !
> Perl give me this message :
> "The file is too big to be edited in MacPerl"
> The file has 72 087 bytes.
>
> What can I do ?

You need an EDITOR.

Let me explain. MacPerl uses the Mac Toolbox's TextEdit routines for its 
editing functions, which limits it to 32K files or smaller (not so hot).  
To get around this you need a text-editor that ties into MacPerl.  Most 
people on this list will point you at BBEdit (currently in version 5.1.1 
(?).  In its latest incarnation BBEdit's MacPerl integration is built-in, 
and VERY nice (say a big hello to Jim Corriea, of Bare Bones, who 
frequents this list!). You'll have to pay about $100 US for BBEdit, but 
it's one of the best investments any Mac programmer can make.

http://www.barebones.com/

Alpha is also a very nice text editor, which ties in nicely to MacPerl, 
and there are a few people on this list who'd advocate it as well.  Since 
it isn't a commercial product, it has a slight advantage over BBEdit in 
that it's freely available. I don't have a URL for Alpha handy, but I 
suspect it can be found on Info-Mac

Quite personally, I find that I get more mileage out of MacPerl using 
BBEdit than I'd ever gotten out of MacPerl alone. In fact, since its now 
possible to use Perl scripts as BBEdit includes, I'm getting even MORE 
mileage out of the combo.

--B

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