How can I run Command-line tools on my Mac?

An environment with Wine sounds delicious, Robert. I'll give it a go.

--Gil

Bob--

Yeah, I thought so, too. But I tried your suggeston before I posted, and that's how I got here.

That Google clue points most emphatically to an Apple Support Communities thread on which kyp suggests:

You can easily create a subrip file and convert it to scc for free using SUBRIP2SCC.

http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCCTOOLS/DOCS/SCCTOOLS.HTML

That got me excited. Now why would a contributor to this Apple discussion group refer to a webpage that can only be useful to Windowsites? So I asked here.

You're right. Surely there must be a Mac version. I'll keep looking.

And I think I'll also try a taste of Wine.

Thanks for your help, guys.

--Gil

Robert--

I just opened your link. Fabulous! A Perl version. I can even read it! I remember Perl from last... erm, millenium?

Would you perchance have a further suggestion as to how I can [ learn to ] run a Perl tool on this Mac?

Thanks for this link. It may be just the ticket!

--Gil

Thanks for getting me going, Robert. Actually, it took a bit more research to find out that I had to insert an incantation as the first line of the file. It reads...

#!/usr/bin/perl

...and then it worked, just as you said!

--Gil