Mac OS Classic vs Mac OS X clarications

by Sherm Pendley

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23963

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq3.pod b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
index 411e857..33675bf 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq3.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
@@ -819,8 +819,10 @@ the Registry yourself.  In addition to associating C<.pl> with the
 interpreter, NT people can use: C<SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.PL> to let them
 run the program C<install-linux.pl> merely by typing C<install-linux>.
 
-Macintosh Perl programs will have the appropriate Creator and
-Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the Perl application.
+Under "Classic" MacOS, a perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
+Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the MacPerl application.
+Under Mac OS X, clickable apps can be made from any C<#!> script using Wil
+Sanchez' DropScript utility: http://www.wsanchez.net/software/ .
 
 I<IMPORTANT!>: Whatever you do, PLEASE don't get frustrated, and just
 throw the perl interpreter into your cgi-bin directory, in order to

diff --git a/pod/perlmodinstall.pod b/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
index 4f7198b..8352bff 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
+++ b/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ directory) and use this approach.
 
 =item *
 
-B<If you're on a Unix or Linux system,>
+B<If you're on a Unix or Unix-like system,>
 
 You can use Andreas Koenig's CPAN module
 ( http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/CPAN )
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ While still in that directory, type:
 
 =item *
 
-B<If you're using a Macintosh,>
+B<If you're using a Macintosh with "Classic" MacOS and MacPerl,>
 
 
 A. DECOMPRESS

diff --git a/pod/perlopentut.pod b/pod/perlopentut.pod
index 3116f78..72d91b7 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlopentut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlopentut.pod
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ working directory, slash the directory separator, and disallows ASCII
 NULs within a valid filename.  Most systems follow these conventions,
 including all POSIX systems as well as proprietary Microsoft systems.
 The only vaguely popular system that doesn't work this way is the
-proprietary Macintosh system, which uses a colon where the rest of us
+"Classic" Macintosh system, which uses a colon where the rest of us
 use a slash.  Maybe C<sysopen> isn't such a bad idea after all.
 
 If you want to use C<< <ARGV> >> processing in a totally boring

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index c730c08..1e83bdc 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@ Perl program and a Perl library file.
 
 =item Macintosh
 
-A Macintosh perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
-Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the perl application.
+Under "Classic" MacOS, a perl program will have the appropriate Creator and
+Type, so that double-clicking them will invoke the MacPerl application.
+Under Mac OS X, clickable apps can be made from any C<#!> script using Wil
+Sanchez' DropScript utility: http://www.wsanchez.net/software/ .
 
 =item VMS