Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl plan for OSX

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 7:10 PM +0900 9/24/00, Joel Rees wrote:
>  >I just installed the Mac OS X  Beta and I first just have to say.....wow!
>
>Bragging, are we? And when am I going to get MINE in the mail?
>
>[Grumbles and mutters]
>
>>Anyhow, I ramble...The main reason for this email from the world of OS X, is
>>that I noticed that OS X has a BSD port of Perl 5.006 preinstalled.
>
>If you're not familar with grep and haven't figured out how to use
>Sherlock in Mac OS X, boot Mac OS 9 and use Sherlock in that to search
>for perl on the Mac OS X volume(s). You might find that both 5.006 and
>5.6 are in there, called perl5.6.0 or some such. I suppose you would
>invoke it on the shebang line with

5.006 *is* 5.6.0.  (The result of introducing a new versioning system 
while keeping backward compatibility with the old one.)


>#!/usr/bin/perl5.6.0
>
>or something like it.
>
>
>Joel Rees
>---------------------------
>joel_rees@sannet.ne.jp
>http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/joel_rees
>
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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com

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