Re: File name for redirection

[email protected] (Vincent Lefevre) Sun, 21 May 2000 01:31:24 +0200
Newsgroups perl.riscos
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 21:27:54 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Unfortunately I expect that you will if the file name after OS var expansion
> isn't a full pathname.

It is a full pathname, but with a pseudo-FS.

> What were the filenames that needed periods converted to slashes?

No, the periods were the directory separator. But UnixLib expected
a path with Unix syntax (I don't know why and it seems to be a bug).

Instead of <Choices$Write>.WWW.Browse.Hotlist, I had to write
<Choices$Write>/WWW/Browse/Hotlist.

And Choices$Write is:

  Boot:Choices

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100%
validated HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des
Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc.
Computer science / computer arithmetic / Arénaire project at LIP, ENS-Lyon