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- WELCOME TO MACPERL5
-
- This is Perl 5, ported to the Mac by Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
- Feel free to give this program away according to the terms stated
- in the README file.
-
- System Requirements
-
- MacPerl5 requires System 7.
-
- Bugs, Suggestions, Damnations
-
- Please send your bug reports and/or fixes to <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
-
- Mailing list
-
- There is a mailing list for announcing new releases, sharing scripts, and
- discussions about how to make MacPerl change your life. To subscribe, send
- the following mail:
-
- ----------------
- To: mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch
-
- subscribe
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-
- Ftp sites
-
- If you have internet access, you can obtain the newest versions of Perl by
- anonymous ftp from one of the following addresses:
-
- ftp.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] software/mac/perl
- ftp.share.com pub/macperl
-
- Matthias Neeracher Office: +41 1 445 24 08
- Hohenklingenstrasse 19 Fax: +41 1 445 24 24
- 8049 Zuerich Home: +41 1 341 85 06
- SWITZERLAND Email: <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
-
- REVISION HISTORY
-
- The person in [] is usually the key person to have convinced me to fix a
- bug or add a feature. Everyone mentioned in [] should be mentioned in the
- MacPerl5 about box (Yes, your name could be there, too!).
-
- 5.0.3r1m 26Nov95
- - When opening files, MacPerl 5.0.2r1m (and all earlier versions) calls
- PrValidate without calling PrOpen first. This causes horrible crashes
- when certain printers are selected, notably PDFWriter [Todd Hivnor].
- - I was locking the text handle of the front window "forever" as soon as
- text was selected, which caused some operations to fail. This bug was
- also in MacPerl4, but never seems to have been found [Stonewall Ballard].
- - The MacPerl5 glue to choose() had a bug which caused PutFile to fail if a
- default was specified [Espen S. Ore].
- - "-D" messages now go to the correct window, and you should no longer get
- bogus malloc diagnostics on startup of a script [Martin Heller].
- - Fixed an anachronism in perl5db.pl [Martin Heller].
- - Calling -v twice in a row would crash [Phil Ames].
- - Environment variables from the CGI glue would not be propagated correctly.
- - The XL callback glue had a bug which would lead to unpredictable
- results from XCMD calls [Jason Buberel].
- - A change introduced in 5.0.1 was causing input from the console to
- misbehave [Yuemo Zeng and Larry Allen-Tonar].
-
- 5.0.2r1m 05Nov95
- - Library paths got corrupted [Paul Schinder].
- - A bug in the help code led to crashes with System error 11 on startup
- [Charles Albrecht and Richard Moe].
- - After stopping a script with Command-., the next script would crash.
- - A few items omitted from the 5.0.1 notes:
- - readlink() no longer mounts network volumes. This has the disadvantage
- that you can't necessarily expect the result to be open()able, but is
- probably more useful for checking scripts [Martin Heller].
- - system now is implemented as print `xxx`, which is not quite correct
- but covers the typical use of system().
- - umask is "implemented", but simply does nothing.
- - link is "implemented", but always fails.
-
- 5.0.1r1m 31Oct95
- I feel pretty good about this release:
- - Reliability should be considerably improved over 5.0.0
- - The application features a new help system, based on suggestions by
- Martin Heller. You need to install Internet Config 1.2 and then
- set up you favorite WWW browser as a helper entry for "file" for
- the whole thing to work.
- - Thanks to persistent lobbying by Dick Karpinski, the application now
- supports raw keyboard input. Check out :t:mac:Raw.t for an example.
- - The script menu now has an entry for syntax checking the front window,
- for turning on the debugger and for turning on compilation warnings.
- I believe that the new debugger interface will make it easier to debug
- droplets and such.
- - The a2p tool has been included and sort of works.
- - A source code release should appear within a week.
-
- 5.0.0 25Aug95
- This release is too good to delay and too bad to release. It had to go out
- today as I'm leaving for holidays. In general, it seems to behave sensibly,
- except for the application in out of memory situations. Don't run out of
- memory. The library is mostly untested.
- Extra points for identifying all sounds in the about box and for finding
- the one feature that is missing in MacPerl4, although it could theoretically
- have been implemented there.
-
-