MacPerl

This is the http gateway to my MacPerl ftp site. Here I keep various scripts that I have found useful. The MacPerl applications and MPW tools can be found at Matthias Neeracher's master MacPerl ftp site or at any Comprehensive Perl Archive Network site; I no longer keep them here.

The links below lead to places that any MacPerl user might find useful.

MacPerl links

Matthias Neeracher's MacPerl Page and the master MacPerl ftp site
Sandra Silcot's MacPerl Primer
Hal Wine's original and out of date MacPerl FAQ and the new revised FAQ by Bob Dalgleish and Bob Wilkinson
Brad Cox's Perl page
Chris Nandor's MacPerl page, with Chris' collection of Perl modules, including modules which use AppleEvents to control various things.
The MacPerl Pages at Prime Time Freeware, who will be publishing a MacPerl book and CD.
The MacPerl mailing list is at mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch. To subscribe to the list, send e-mail to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch with the single line "subscribe" in the body of the message. Don't send the subscription request, or any other administrative request, to the list itself. David Turley has an almost up-to-date and actively maintained searchable archive of the list. Sandra Silcot also has a searchable archive of the mailing list, but it has not been updated in a while.

The Perl documentation from the Unix Perl 5.004 distribution. (The current version of MacPerl, 5.20r4, is based on 5.004).

General Perl sites

The Perl Language Home Page at www.perl.com
Perl references
University of Florida Perl Archive
The Perl Journal
The Perl Institute
O'Reilly and Associates publishers of many excellent Perl books and the place where Perl's author, Larry Wall, now works.

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

The CPAN Master Site in Finland
North American Mirrors
- United States
- Canada
South American Mirrors
- Chile
European Mirrors
Australasian Mirrors
Asian Mirrors
African Mirrors
- South Africa

Specific Perl packages

libwww-perl-5, by Gisle Aas and Martijn Koster. libwww-perl-5.32 is the current MacPerl ready version. Since libwww-perl-5 uses libnet for FTP URL's, you should download libnet if you download libwww-perl-5. You'll also need MIME::Base64, which has been spun out of the standard libwww-perl-5 distribution, and you may want MD5 to do Digest Authentication (and any other protocol that needs MD5, like APOP with Net::POP3)
Graham Barr's libnet, a collection of client modules for nearly every protocol but HTTP, including FTP, NNTP, and POP3. libnet-1.0605 is the current MacPerl ready version.
libnet uses (but no longer requires) Data::Dumper, so you should download this as well. This link points to Chris Nandor's compiled shared version of Data-Dumper for MacPerl, which also includes the pure Perl .NOXSUB version if for some reason you can't use the shared libraries.
Graham Barr's Mailtools, a module to compose mail and manipulate Unix standard mailboxes, like the ones Eudora uses. With the aid of libnet, it can also be used to send mail. MailTools-1.11 is the current MacPerl ready version.
Eryq's Convert::BinHex is a module which can encode and decode BinHex. I have written a MacPerl front end, Mac::Conversions, which can convert both BinHex and MacBinary files to and from native Mac files, as well as convert between BinHex and MacBinary. Read the included pod documentation with Shuck for details. Conversions.pm should be placed in a folder named Mac in your MacPerl library search path, and requires Convert::BinHex.
htmlchek, a Perl HTML syntax checker, which is out of date but still functional if you don't mind being warned about newfangled HTML tags like <TABLE>. You can simply save htmlchek as a MacPerl droplet and drop html files on it that you want to check.

Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com