Re: [MacPerl] Path divider character?

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Eike Grote <eike.grote@btp3x3.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> writes:
>Shawn Pearce wrote:
>> At 1:50 PM 5/20/96, Eike Grote wrote:
>> > Examples:
>> >
>> >   chdir("programms:test area");   # relative path

This is wrong.

>> Shouldn't relative START with a ":"????

Yes. To repeat once more: Relative paths either contain NO ':'s or START
with a ':'.

> BTW, maybe it is not necessary to use a special pathname delimiter;
> I've written a script that traverses a directory tree and it does
> _not_ use 'Find' and it does _not_ check the platform and it
> runs on both MacOS (as a droplet) and UNIX (like a shell script)
> without any changes.

This works of you do very careful chdirs.

Matthias

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