Re: [MacPerl] Net::SMTP

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 4:40 PM -0500 1/31/00, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 22.34 +0100 2000.01.31, Axel Rose wrote:
>  >Hi Chris,
>  >
>  >I downloaded MIME-tools-4.124.tar.gz from CPAN and dropped onto your
>  >installme.plx of Nov 1999
>  >
>  >After giving MacPerl 80MB RAM it runs but stops at:
>  >
>  >Unpacking archive ...
>  >Converting files ...
>  >LF->CR translate  :MIME-tools-4.124:t:Body.t
>  >...
>  >LF->CR translate  :MIME-tools-4.124:testin:sig
>  >Warning: checksum mismatch, b66, 406a
>  ># Use of uninitialized value.
>  >File 'Fressplatte:Programme:MacPerl Ÿ:lib:IO:File.pm'; Line 181
>  ># Unable to open the data fork of
>  >:MIME-tools-4.124:testin:PáV®°ZÑ:Ñ:!EãÖ4ÍÎ 5ÍÍ.
>  >File 'Fressplatte:Programme:MacPerl Ÿ:site_perl:ExtUtils:MM_MacOS.pm';
>  >Line 1026
>  >
>  >Could you please see whether this a workaround or patch.
>  >I've no idea where to search for the problem. Is it File.pm or 
>MM_MacOS.pm ??
>
>I think the problem is that there are .bin files that cpan-mac thinks are
>MacBinary, but aren't.  Try unpacking with some other utility, like Stuffit
>Expander.  We need to get cpan-mac to recognize .bin files that are not
>MacBinary files.

There's a function in Mac::Conversions that answers just that 
question.  It isn't 100% reliable (can't be, basically) but it should 
work almost all of the time.  Mac::Conversions->is_macbinary($path). 
I added it after Arved ran into the same problem with one of the XML 
modules.


>
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