[MacPerl-Toolbox] FSpGetCatInfo and aliases...

[mark thompson <mark@squirrel.tgsoft.com>]

I am writing a perl program to do backups from my macintosh to
a remote machine that has a tape drive (think of unix rdump... though
that isn't exactly what I'm doing).

I have run into a problem with aliases. I can detect them easilly enough
with -l; but FSpGetCatInfo - which I use to get the finder information and
file size, seems to 'follow' aliases... ie. it is stat rather than lstat.

In order to back up aliases, I need to get the finder info (lstat). I seem
to be able to actually READ the alias with POSIX::, but maybe I have that
wrong... it would be nice if a guru would give me tips on this, too.

-mark (mark at tgsoft.com)

p.s. I seem to have Perl 5.2.0r4 (17Apr98), if that matters



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