Re: [MacPerl] chdir went wrong

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

Berndt Wischnewski <wischnewsky@mpib-berlin.mpg.de> writes:
>Hi, I found some strange behaviour of the MacPerl's chdir command on
>partitioned harddrives.
>Assume the following:
># trying to move to the second partition, but it fails
># I am ending up on the first partition, not on the second one
>chdir("Marilyn");
>$path = `pwd`;
>print "$path";
>
>Is this a bug ore a feature ?

It's a *behaviour*, I'd say :-) Volume names need to end with a ":" on the Mac.

Matthias

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