Re: Perl version of GetFileInfo?

2003-11-01 Thread William H. Magill
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 07:56 PM, Paul McCann wrote: Hi Conrad, you wrote... I jumped too soon. I tested the MacOSX::File install under Panther and it failed with these errors: I tried using gcc 2.95 instead of 3.3 and got further but still errored... I don't have time right

Newcomer with a few questions

2003-11-01 Thread Jay Young
Hi, I've tinkered with Perl a little bit in the past, but am still totally new to it. I'm currently reading an O'Reilly book called 'Learning Perl - 3rd Edition' which is pretty helpful. I was curious if some of you might tell me some of the powerful things Perl can do. I know about using

Re: Newcomer with a few questions

2003-11-01 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Jay - Jay == Jay Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jay I was curious if some of you might tell me some of Jay the powerful things Perl can do. It's not easy to differentiate the capabilities of languages independent of a given task. Some of the things I like about perl is that it

Re: Perl version of GetFileInfo?

2003-11-01 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conrad Schilbe) wrote: /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo could not be used to display info about folder I found this from a google search: use MacOSX::File::Info; my $info = MacOSX::File::Info-get(...); print Creator is . $info-creator .

Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

2003-11-01 Thread Les Klassen
I have perl 5.8.1 installed by default on my OS 10.3 Macintosh. I've tried downloading and installing perl modules using CPAN and I always get this error: % perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code. It