<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi PerlMongers,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do any of you work in Mac OS X?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've got some pretty basic questions, such as...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">1 I thought I installed Perl 5.8.8 from ActiveState, but when I type <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">perl -v</FONT> in terminal it says...</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">This is perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What gives?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2 How do I install modules, in particular <A href="http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-0.41/lib/DateTime.pm">DateTime</A>?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3 I can't find the Perl Package Manager on my system. Nor can my launcher, or spotlight.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">4 I've got a workaround for this, but how do I tell Mac OS X to open a <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">.pl</FONT> file with Perl? At present I'm running it in terminal with a <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">perl perrmoss.pl</FONT> command.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Martin</DIV><DIV>Visit my website...</DIV><DIV><A href="http://web.mac.com/martin_jacobs1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://web.mac.com/martin_jacobs1 </SPAN></A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>