Re: MacPerl Script on OS X

Actually,

if g5hd is a mounted (external) hard drive than the /Volumes/gh5d
is required. If it's the root, than it's not.

el

on 8/23/08 5:33 PM Doug McNutt said the following:
> At 08:43 +0100 8/23/08, Eberhard Lisse wrote:
[...]
> 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.
[...]

But then the line ends didn't have any thing to do with it...

el

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