Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:34 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote: > > > 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. > > At the risk of sounding like a brok

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:34 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote: 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. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this still isn't true. Perl has shipped

RE: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread McMahon, Chris
TED] 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.

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread James Edward Gray II
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. All versions of Mac OS X have shipped with Perl installed and ready to go. Perl is a command line UNIX app

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread deborah
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