Bart Lateur wrote:
This is what I was looking for."%b" works in perl5.8.x, and, judging by the "perldoc -f sprintf" for 5.6.1, in 5.6.1 too.
My MacPerl version number was 5.2.0r4; I just downloaded MacPerl 5.6.1r2 for MacOS9.2 and found that printf "%b" ... works. I also downloaded Mac-Carbon 0.71 for MacOSX; unfortunately I could not find an application nor a make...-how-to.
Thank you also for the other suggestions.
Detlef Lindenthal