Re: MacPerl Script on OS X

At 08:43 +0100 8/23/08, Eberhard Lisse wrote:
>>  7 open ("trans", "g5hd:newScansImages:trans") or die "Error, can't open";

open (TRANS, "</Volumes/g5hd/newScansImages/trans")
     or die "Error can't open $!\n";

Be really careful about that /Volumes/ directory.  Apple uses it as a mount point for external and secondary disks and not for the "root" disk which can't have a name other than "/" in the world of UNIX.

g5hd sounds a lot like a user inserted name for a main disk.  The proper form in the UNIX - perl5 world would be more like

/newScansImages/trans

where the leading solidus is the root directory for the operating system.

A sure way to get the right string is to open Terminal.app and use Finder to drag a file icon into the window. Terminal.app will display the POSIX path relative to the current working directory which you might want to set to / with a  "cd /" command.

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