Re: [MacPerl] An Internet Config .pm conflict

["Andrew O. Mellinger" <andrew@crashbox.com>]

At 10:09 AM -0500 12/8/00, Vic Norton wrote:
>Perhaps nobody else will ever encounter this problem, but I did. I 
>thought I'd report it.
>
>In the file mapping section of Internet Config (the Internet control 
>panel), I discovered that the extension ".pm" was describing an "xv 
>image" file of type "PMpm" and creator "GKON" (Graphic Converter). 
>Some downloaded Perl modules were ending up with this type-creator 
>pair, even though I used  Chris Nandor's "installme" droplet to 
>install them. I've since changed all these bad type-creator pairs to 
>"TEXT,McPL" and redefined the ".pl" extension in Internet Config.
>
>I've never opened an "xv image" file in my life. I'm not sure where 
>Internet Config got the "xv image" extension, but I thought I'd say 
>something about it. It happened to me. It could happen to somebody 
>else.

   I've run into this annoying problem before as well.  PM is one of 
the bazillion graphic files types that Graphic Converter opens.  I 
think the Graphic Converter installer may have gone in and mapped all 
those extension types to itself.

   Personally I map those to TEXT, R*ch myself.

-Andrew

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------
  mailto:andrew@crashbox.com                http://www.crashbox.com
  -----------------------------------------------------------------*/

# ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
# ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org