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So they plan on screwing with the zip format? That just seems silly. Well, as long as they don’t mess with tar or gzip I think I’ll be ok. Right now I don’t use zip very often. On occasion I have to send files to novice Windows users, and in such a case, I choose zip. If I’m sending something to someone using the old Mac OS (pre OS X) I’ll usually stuffit and then binhex it. For Mac OS X users, you can create a disk image (dmg) file, and you can always gzip that if you want to, but for the majority of things I do, the old fashioned tarball suits me just fine. tar and gzip, can’t live without them…

We’ll be in Iowa this coming weekend… Iowa City to be exact. If anyone has recommendations as to what to see/do/avoid while there, please let me know.

(I’ve been told that IOWA stands for Idiots Out Wandering Around, and it’s been over 10 years since I first attempted to discover if this is correct or not, so I thought it was time to try again…)

While I hear that Panther will ship with Perl 5.8.x, Jaguar still has 5.6.0 as the default, and I really needed 5.6.1, and I’m really not ready to move to 5.8.x (since I’ve followed no 5.8 development other than “you need to recompile everything, and things will break”) so I followed this guide to Perl 5.6.1 for Mac OS X, and it worked out quite well…

I know, I could install 5.8 into /opt or some other place not touching 5.6 but I have no need to yet, so I won’t.

Note to self: It might be time to look at Bricolage again…

(Category: Under New Management)

As much as we hate it, at least when we are forced to deal with it, there is a good resource at the css-discuss wiki on HTML Email.