Re: [MacPerl] Converting From Unix to Mac

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 10:38 PM +0100 2/17/98, Georges Martin wrote:

} Paul,
}
} there is already a File::Spec module written by Kenneth Albanowski
} (kjahds@kjahds.com) and available on CPAN :
}
} >This module is designed to support operations commonly performed on file
} >specifications (usually called "file names", but not to be confused with the
} >contents of a file, or Perl's file handles), such as concatenating several
} >directory and file names into a single path, or determining whether a path
} >is rooted. It is based on code directly taken from MakeMaker 5.17, code
} >written by Andreas KE<ouml>nig, Andy Dougherty, Charles Bailey, Ilya
} >Zakharevich, and others.
}
} I started to use it to maintain one code base for Linux, Win32 and
} MacPerl. The only missing part at this time is the File::Spec::Mac
} implementation.

There's one now.  I just sent it off to Albanowski.  As soon as
ftp.clark.net comes back up, I'll put a copy of Mac.pm at
<ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/schinder/Beta/Mac.pm>.  Comments are welcome.

}
} It would not be hard to do it but I haven't found the time until now.
}
} +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
}  Georges Martin                       <mailto:georges.martin@deboeck.be>
} +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
}  "We reject kings, presidents, and voting.                    IETF Credo
}   We believe in rough consensus and running code."     Dave Clark (1992)
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Paul J. Schinder
schinder@pobox.com


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