From: Tim Rand (tim@stlouis.datapage.com)
Subject: MacPerl 5.1.4r4 released
Forwarded from the MacPerl mailing list:
After some dramatical last minute developments, the application and MPW
tool packages of MacPerl 5.1.4r4, the first MacPerl release based on 5.004,
are now available on
ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch//software/platform/macos/perl/
The rest of the distribution should become available later this week.
5.1.4 05Oct97
– Made Command-. more reliable and also added a menu command for it.
– Expanded toolbox documentation considerably.
– The MPW Tool distribution now simply installs on top of the application
distribution, which makes it a lot smaller [Martin Heller].
– Add %#s format to printf for Pascal strings.
– Rewrote all toolbox interfaces to use strict; introduced a lot more
structs; rewrote hash based structs to object based structs.
– FindFolder.pl had lost its XFCN resource and thus would no longer work
[Paul Schinder].
– File::Copy::move would sometimes destroy the target file when
the source file didn’t exist.
– Fixed treatment of paths starting with a space [Paul Schinder].
– MacPerl::Pick is now context sensitive: In scalar context, picks
a single item, in array context, picks multiple items
[Brian Matthews]. Also fixed treatment of arrow keys.
– Safe/Opcode modules now should work.
– Compiled without DEBUGGING option, which should speed things up.
This only affects the -D option, not -d.
Matthias Neeracher
(neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch)
http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
