Hi Deborah...
From a terminal prompt, do "which perl". If you get back something
like "/usr/bin/perl", you're in business.
But Perl doesn't come with OSX by default. You may or may not have
an install CD called "Developer Tools" or some such, and Perl is on that.
If you don't have the CD, you can get the same software off the apple.com
website.
My first Perl experience was a few months ago on OSX, it's a good
place to start.
-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: deborah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX
Do you know how to bring up a terminal on your mac?
If not, that's where to start. Find the utilities directory and you'll
see the Terminal utility. Then just click on it and a new terminal
window should open. Then enter any perl command, such as whereis perl
and voila, you should see perl working.
Let me know if that's not what you need.
--Deborah
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:57 AM, Dillon, John wrote:
> I got an iBook recently with OSX 10.2.4. It's UNIX based. Allegedly
> 10.1+
> has Perl pre-installed but I couldn't find it. So I've downloaded the
> right
> version for Mac OSX. I have the same problem as I had in the thread
> 'Getting started in Perl for Windows'. What now? With Windows, I was
> directed to c: and typed perl -MCPAN -e shell or I typed myprogram.pl,
> return. I'm new to both Mac and Perl, but not to programming. I
> don't have
> a Perl for Mac book, but what I don't know is the very first practical
> step:
> how to access cpan or run a perl program on the Mac now that I've
> installed
> Perl. I can't find anywhere on the internet telling me 'what next'.
> Is
> there a shell somewhere, do I click something? It would have been
> nice to
> have a readme file with this information rather than have to search
> high and
> low.
>
> John
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