Re: [MacPerl] Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl

["Douglas P. McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch

Dogcow it. This whole problem comes about because of sloppy coding both by
UNIX and Mac perl scripters. I just went back through ALL of the perl
scripts I have ever written. There isn't a single case of a hard-coded file
name in them. I pass the file names as arguments or look them up as
environment variables. They thus take the required form regardless of the
underlying system.

Fixed file names are almost the equivalent of assuming a date is 19xx.

Perhaps the most important thing is to get a GOOD way of passing system 
specific filenames to the application version of MacPerl. That way a
well-written UNIX script won't have to worry about filenames.

-> From the USA. The only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-

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