Re: Filing systems

In message <[email protected]>
          Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 16:10:15 +0100, Stephane Roux wrote:
> > I understand that when you access to a file with perl under RISC-OS,
> > the filenames are unixified (/ replacing .). My problem is that i
> > want to get access to a files on a LanMan98 shared disc on another
> > machine. What is the syntax to be used when the host machine is
> > "PCCrap", the disc shared is called "Common" and the files i'm trying to 
> > reach are in a directory called "mp3" ?
> 
> Doesn't LanMan98 use the standard RISC OS syntax for pathnames?

Yes, so using /LanMan98::Common/$/mp3/foo.mp3 should do the trick.
Specifying it as a normal RISC OS filename may also work, depending on
the script.

Alex

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