1If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. 2It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially 3designed to be readable as is. 4 5=head1 NAME 6 7perlmacos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) 8 9=head1 SYNOPSIS 10 11For Mac OS X see README.macosx 12 13Perl under Mac OS Classic has not been supported since before Perl 5.10 14(April 2004). 15 16When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and I<not> 17Mac OS X. 18 19=head1 DESCRIPTION 20 21The port of Perl to Mac OS was officially removed as of Perl 5.12, 22though the last official production release of MacPerl corresponded to 23Perl 5.6. While Perl 5.10 included the port to Mac OS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, 24a core part of Perl's module installation infrastructure officially dropped support for Mac OS in April 2004. 25 26=head1 AUTHOR 27 28Perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher 29E<lt>neeracher@mac.comE<gt>. Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt> 30continued development and maintenance for the duration of the port's life. 31