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1 | If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. |
| 2 | It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially | |
| 3 | designed to be readable as is. | |
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| 5 | =head1 NAME | |
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| 7 | README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) | |
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9 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
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| 11 | This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). | |
| 12 | If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be | |
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13 | here (unless you are in the Classic environment under early versions of |
| 14 | Mac OS X). | |
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16 | When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not> |
| 17 | Mac OS X. | |
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20 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| c22d4cd0 | 22 | The port of Perl to to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12, |
| f858446f | 23 | though the last official production release of MacPerl corresponded to |
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24 | Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, |
| 25 | a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004. | |
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27 | Historical information (and working binaries of the last released version) |
| 28 | are available from L<http://dev.macperl.org> as of October 2009. | |
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30 | =head1 AUTHOR |
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| 32 | perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher | |
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33 | E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt> |
| 34 | continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life. |