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- WELCOME TO MPW PERL
-
- This is Perl for the Mac, ported to MPW C by Matthias Neeracher
- <neeri@iis.ethz.ch> and Tim Endres <time.ice.com>. It runs every
- program in the test suite that you could it reasonably expect to, and
- some you probably didn't expect. Feel free to give this program away
- according to the terms stated in the README file.
-
- System Requirements
-
- Perl really likes MPW. The standalone version is not much use yet.
- Some of the really cool features require ToolServer, System 7, and
- enough RAM (Notably stuff like `CFront MacApp.cp`, while (<┼.c>) or
- open(XXX, "Catenate ┼.c |")) Some of the files barely compile with 5
- megabytes of RAM.
-
- Bugs, Suggestions, Damnations
-
- Please send your bug reports and/or fixes to <neeri@iis.ethz.ch> (It
- is rather unlikely that any of the bugs are relevant to the UNIX
- version).
-
- Mailing list
-
- There is now a mailing list for announcing new releases, sharing
- scripts, and discussions about how to make MPW Perl change your life.
- To subscribe, send a mail to <mpw-perl-request@iis.ethz.ch>
-
- Revision History
-
- 24Jan93 4.0.6
-
- - choose() for files no longer includes the terminating null character.
- - rename() and TCP sockets work better (thanks to Brad Pickering for reporting
- these bugs).
- - standalone version can read scripts from its data fork and accepts more
- startup files.
- - (hopefully) improved the documentation a little. Added ObiWan support.
-
- 20Dec92 4.0.5
-
- - Supports sockets and symbolic links.
- - "ask", "answer" and "pick" are now builtins with a slightly changed syntax
- (sorry).
- - A few mac scripts are now provided in :t:mac and :macscripts:
- - The application now always searches for a #! line first. If none is found,
- the script is executed anyway, but the file has to be read twice.
-
- 27Sep92 4.0.4
-
- This release upgrades the Mac version to UNIX patchlevel 35.
-
- 08Jun92 4.0.3
-
- This release supports opendir (In fact, I thought the last one'd already support it.
- Thanks to Mike Meckler <meckler@egg.gg.caltech.edu> for reporting this bug).
-
- dbmopen & friends are now supported.
-
- 20Jan92 4.0.2
-
- First public release.
-