First, thanks to all for the prompt responses :)

BrowserUk: Got it! So far so good.

perl-diddler: From a first glance, cygwin looks like it veers into that programming-configuring territory that I'm bad at.

stevieb: Thanks. IIRC MacOS up to 8.6(ish) was its own Apple-proprietary thing, then OSX (MacOS 10) was the first full-Unix based one, with OS9.(x) being the transition phase.

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Just one little follow-up question (though I suspect the answer will be beyond my copy-paste-cargo-cult programming skills...): The program plain text output goes to a DOS box, where I can right-click to select all and copy out all of the text. Is there a *dirt-simple* way to change the basic 'print' command where it directs the text output to a Windows-style window that I can mouse-highlight small portions of it to be copied out?

In reply to Re: MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Anonymous Monk
in thread MacPerl Replacement for a non-programmer? by Anonymous Monk

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