Re: Perl under OSX, what version of Unix to use

[Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 18:39, jtownsen wrote:

I have several Perl scripts that I run on Win XP. I'd like to port 
them to my OS X box. From what I've read on the web, I can run Unix 
Perl from the OS X console.
You mean "terminal"...  (sorry to be pedantic!)...
What version are you running now?
--what version of Unix Perl (Linux vs Solaris, for example) should I 
use?
I'm still using 5 - not necessarily the latest.

Here:

% perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall


--any pitfalls I should be aware of when moving from Win to OS X/Unix?
--any related documentation you can recommend would be appreciated
Can't help re windoze to Mac, sorry!

			Cheers,

					BPR


Thanks