a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread Rich Morin
I've come up with some peculiar questions about OSX file systems: * How can I get the file length and size on disk for a file's Data and Resource forks? * How can I get the Kind information (as reported by File Buddy, Get Info, and Super Get Info)? * How can I get the

Re: What's the best POP module?

2003-02-05 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 17:43 +0100 2/4/03, Gian Luca Gaiba wrote: I tried POP3::Client but it seems that have no methods to fetch and retrieve attachments... Someone uses other one with best performances or with the methods for attachments? Maybe you should have a look at Mail::Box. It also has POP3

DBD::Pg install errors

2003-02-05 Thread Patrick Hatcher
Trying to install DBD::Pg 1.21 on Pg 7.3 w/SSL. However when I get to make test, my process fails. I've tried other suggestions of setenv POSTGRES_LIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lssl but still no success. Unfortunately, unloading Pg is not an option. Any suggestions? Below is my ENV settings and

Re: What's the best POP module?

2003-02-05 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Vic Norton wrote: For simple stuff consider Net::POP3 from the libnet-1.12 package. This is probably already installed in your system. Maybe not - it's a standard module with 5.8.0, but remember, OS X ships with 5.6.0, and for that version libnet

Re: a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread pkeidesis
Rich Morin wrote: Peculiarly, although stat works on the data and resource forks, it seems to give the file's total number of blocks, when asked about the forks: Size Data fork 18884 (20.0 KB) Resource fork 0 (20.0 KB) Total 18884 (20.0 KB) I know very

Re: a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread Rich Morin
At 4:40 PM -0600 2/5/03, pkeidesis wrote: I know very little about it from the Unix point of view, but from the Mac point of view -- not all files have resource forks worth a tinker's damn. If rsrc is zero, well, then it is zero. pure ascii files are like that. otoh, things like icons are mostly

Re: a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread Rich Morin
I just did a Google search, trying to find descriptions of the individual Mac OS attributes. No luck. Can anyone suggest a reference? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser,

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-05 Thread Paul McCann
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:03:32PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg Done, and much appreciated. (The machine on which I have just installed your dmg was giving all sorts of

Re: a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread Rich Morin
I just did another search, trying to find a Perlish way to get the BSD file attributes. No luck (and I hate having to use ls -lo). -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta

Re: dmg of perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Torkington) wrote: Please download and test the perl 5.8.0 distribution available from: http://nathan.torkington.com/tmp/perl5.8.0gnat1.dmg It installs Perl, Berkeley DB 4.1.25, DB_File 1.42 and Time::HiRes 1.42 into

Re: Mac OS X client and #perl

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ask Bjoern Hansen) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Hughes) writes: Semi-off topic... What IRC client are people here using, and which IRC servers do perl folk inhabit? sirc - http://www.iagora.com/~espel/sirc/sirc.html (and

Re: a folder of file system questions

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Nandor
In article p05200f3cba67470bba32@[192.168.254.205], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Morin) wrote: Actually, it may well be a moot point. Not that many files are sparse, so the number of bytes is a reasonable indication of the number of blocks. It's just that I'd rather have the individual block