$Id$ This module parses the property lists rom Mac OS X, at least the ones from the pre-Tiger releases. I wrote this module to work on all platforms, since I needed it to work on FreeBSD (which pulled files from my Mac machines to do various things). This means that the module can be very (very) slow for very large files. If someone would like to write stuff to hook into CoreFoundation and use the Mac OS X stuff to handle the parsing, I'll incorporate it into the module. I still need pure perl support though. You can install this using in the usual Perl fashion perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The documentation is in the module file. Once you install the file, you can read it with perldoc. perldoc Mac::PropertyList If you want to read it before you install it, you can use perldoc directly on the module file. perldoc lib/PropertyList.pm This module is also in CVS on SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/brian-d-foy/ In the hacks/ directory I have a couple of scripts. The plist-timer.pl script will parse the plist you give it and time it. You might want to try that first to see if you get acceptable performance. Enjoy, brian d foy, bdfoy@cpan.org