Re: [MacPerl] Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl

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

Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu> writes:
>If one has set the "I want to use Unix-style pathnames" switch, internally
>convert Mac folders with embedded /'s to :'s, or some other suitable
>character (a "plus" sign? an underscore? a dash? an em-dash? an en-dash?
>the choice is left as an exercise for the reader).  
>
>Or (less desireable) don't support it at all--in other words,
>barf/carp/die if a Mac folder containing "/" or leading dots is found. 
>After all, if I've told MacPerl I want to use Unix style pathnames, I'm
>not likely to violate Unix conventions in the folders I run it on.

Well, I have the same offer for you as I have for the newline dissidents: I'll
try to give you every possible technical support for learning to build MacPerl,
but if you want that feature, you'll have to build your own version of MacPerl.

Matthias

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