>I've set up a PowerMac 5400/180Mhz/136MB RAM with MacPerl 5.6.1r1 on OS >9.1 and, only having experience of using CPAN on Mac OS X (via the CLI), >I'm stuck trying to find docs on how to run CPAN from MacPerl (I've tried >the usual places, dev.macperl, PTF's old page, etc but no luck).
I had gotten the CPAN to work by using the "One-Liner" menu option under "Tools" and typing in "perl -MCPAN -eshell". As is typical, it realized that CPAN had never been run, and thus start prompting for various configuration settings. Eventually, I got to a point where keyboard input seemed to crap out - I couldn't delete, I couldn't cancel (via the keyboard), I couldn't <return>, etc. Eventually, to get the CPAN working through the shell, I copied and tweaked my configuration file from the OS X Perl, and hemmed and hawed until things were perfect. This may not be ideal for you. In which case, you may just want to download the tarbull's from the CPAN.org site, and then drag and drop them onto the "installme" Droplet. You may also want to look at MacOS/XS compatible modules here (XML::Parser, etc.): http://dev.macperl.org/cgi-bin/mmp.plx -- Morbus Iff ( i desire penance for your sins ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Tech: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 - articles and weblog icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
