Re: [MacPerl] running a unix program from perl(newbie)

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 08:45:29AM -0800, Brian McNett wrote:
> Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Even more oddly, there is a cvs MPW tool, which allows you to use it just
> > like you would under Unix!  :D  (Well, I have not used it, so I don't know
> > if it works in the exact same way or not.)
> 
> If it does, than Ronald's facetious suggestion of backticks (``) has a 
> very good chance of working if you have ToolServer and the MPW cvs tool 
> installed.

Actually, I was assuming that the original poster was running Perl under
Unix and had posted to the wrong list.  It's good to know there are ways of
using CVS in MacPerl as well.

> I don't seem to have the cvs tool on my system though.  Where does one 
> get it (for future reference)?

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cvs/

Ronald

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