Thanks Kevin - I am not sure which version of Perl comes installed on OSX? How could I tell and will it cause problems if I install Active as well? I was not even aware that Active Perl was available on the mac! I see that it also uses ppm so that will probably be the ticket!
Thanks for the help!
Alan
from the command line:
perl -v
that should hopefully tell you what version of perl you have installed. As far as I know OSX does not come with perl by default, so you or someone must have installed it. You could browse the files on your MAC and locate the perl installation and maybe detemine if it is activeperl or some other perl distribution. If there is a mac version of perl besides activeperl I don't know of it.